Randy Newman is one of the great songwriters of the 20th century, a storyteller and showman with a wicked sense of irony, a short story writer's eye for detail, and a taste for romantic string arrangements. While many know him because of his work with Pixar and various movie soundtracks, or via certain popular parodies, his solo compositions—often from the perspective of the most venal, delusional kinds of people—are the ones that his fans would place up there against the best of popular music, alongside the compositions of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Joni Mitchell. [ more › ]
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