higher than Randy Newman Live's showing, but the relatively disappointing chart placement didn't dispel Newman's growing legion of fans, who instantly declared Sail Away his masterpiece.

If you're not familiar with his work, Sail Away: The Songs of Randy Newman is a fine place to start discovering one of America's finest writers. Other performers on the new compilation include ...

Randy Newman’s lyrical ferocity ... songwriter’s third album and ultimate masterpiece Sail Away serving as his own Devil’s Dictionary. There have been controversial instances throughout Newman’s ...

The other day singer-songwriter-composer Randy Newman hopped on the ... A lyrical nod to one of Newman’s early hits, “Sail Away,” the new song is about the opposite reflex: never leaving ...

"Sail Away" is one of Randy Newman's most familiar compositions. It features Randy's sharp political satire by playing the roll of a slave herder telling Africans how great it will be when they get to ...

The original song was written by Newman in 1972 and White reinterprets the track with ease while walking around the place, accompanied by only a few people drumming on whatever they have.

Unlike popular songs by leftists that seek to spark outrage or exultation or urge listeners to get out in the street and march, Randy Newman ... example is “Sail Away,” recorded in 1972.

few of Randy Newman's songs fail to offer evidence of genius. Take, for example, "Dayton, Ohio–1903," a track from Sail Away, one of three Newman titles inaugurating a set of Rhino reissues.

Randy Newman is such a talent - wry, satiric, ironic and with a wickedly witty spin on American life - and these are sublime interpretations of his songs.

Presumably intended as an all-star folk and roots salute to the songwriting genius of Randy Newman, Sail Away could be alternately subtitled The South Strikes Back. Newman likes to write from the ...

In this special edition of MASTERTAPES the legendary singer-songwriter and composer talks to John Wilson about 'Sail Away' – the album that Rolling Stone magazine described as “a work of ...