"Thankfully, Mitchell suggested a number of key changes so I wasn't croaking at people on songs like 'Marie' and 'Living Without You.' I think I sing better now which is one of the reasons I didn't mind doing this album. "It's all about practice - just having done it for so long," he explains. Actually, Newman will admit to trace elements of pride regarding his fine vocals here. So how does Newman rank himself here as his only accompanist? "I had some complaints about his playing but not too many," he answers deadpan. 1, Newman's own piano playing is so sensitive and tasteful that the performances feel utterly complete. Throughout The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol.
"Yeah, it's sort of the political section, if you'll excuse the expression," Newman says with a laugh. Towards the end, for instance, the sequence of "Sail Away," "The World Isn't Fair," "Political Science," "The Great Nations of Europe" and "In Germany Before The War" all together add up to something more than the already considerable sum of their individual parts. At times, The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. Rather than presenting the songs chronologically, Newman and Froom have sequenced them to make the album work as a musical whole. The result is perhaps the purest distillation of the intelligent and unflinching artistry that makes Newman so unique and so worthy of such a serious retrospective. 1, the artfully minimal and budgetarily-responsible stripped- down approach works wonderfully, with even Newman's most familiar material here appearing in a fresh, flattering light. We could have put 'I Love L.A.' or 'Emotional Girl' - and if we sell enough to break even and there is a Vol. Some others could have been on here and weren't. While 'Louisiana 1927' doesn't interest me in playing it much, and yet these really were the songs that worked best. "Surprisingly, I always love playing 'Davy The Fat Boy' or 'Same Girl,' and they didn't make the album. Even Newman was surprised at some songs that made the cut and others that did not. Newman and Froom cut thirty tracks to arrive at the final eighteen here. Here is Newman at the height of his musical powers working with producer Mitchell Froom - well-known for his work with Los Lobos, Richard Thompson and Elvis Costello, among others - to rerecord many of his finest and most lasting compositions. 1 can be seen as the album of a lifetime. In a very real sense The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. "Nice" really understates matters considerably. See I know these songs already but to do them in this way is not a bad thing. I like writing new songs, though frankly I don't do that too much either. It's kind of interesting to me to do this project because it does play to history in a way, but in truth that's not as interesting to me personally as new stuff. "It wasn't something I would have thought to do necessarily - memorialize my own songs. "This was something I did at the behest of the record company really," Newman explains matter of factly. Characteristically, Newman offers no hype. The resulting album is an intimate and powerful reminder of the enduring work that has established Newman as a songwriter's songwriter - one of the most musically and lyrically ambitious singer- songwriters ever to be at play in the fields of popular music.
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The eighteen-song set finds Newman singing and playing piano on powerful new solo versions of his early classics ("I Think It's Going To Rain Today," "Sail Away," "You Can Leave Your Hat On"), his more recent gems ("The World Isn't Fair," "The Great Nations of Europe") as well as a few examples of the Oscar-winning composer's film music (themes from Avalon and Ragtime, as well as "When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2) and even a favorite stray obscurity ("Let Me Go," a song originally written for the 1972 Norman Lear movie The Pursuit of Happiness). I, his illuminating first effort for the Nonesuch label. Yet somehow he still does so brilliantly on The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. If it's not Newman's style to look forward with optimism, it's also not his personal preference to look back, whether in anger or in any other emotion. Come to think of it, I could have called it something safer and more horrible like Looking Back At My Life, but I just didn't give it that much thought." "I'm basically asking for it with a title like that. "Yeah, it's not my style to look ahead with confidence," Newman confesses. I seems like a curiously upbeat and straightforward act for this frequently wry fellow. Calling his inspired new album The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. In addition to being one of our greatest American singer- songwriters and film composers, Newman long ago established himself among our sharpest and most caustic wits.
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