Let's listen to that conversation from 2005. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LOUISIANA 1927") RANDY NEWMAN: (Singing) What has happened down here? Is the wind have changed? Clouds roll in from the north and ...

It wasn’t a case of a songwriter having some case of ESP. “Louisiana 1927” was written by Randy Newman and included on Good Old Boys, his landmark 1974 album. Newman’s source material was ...

“Louisiana 1927,” a classic from Randy Newman’s album “Good Old Boys” (1974), could have easily been written any time in the past hundred years. With Hurricane Katrina, history was ...

In “Kingfish” and “Louisiana 1927”, which tells the story of ... The Biography of Randy Newman’, tells the story of the singer’s life in song (Little Brown/Robert Hilburn) Nowadays ...

And people often ask, what’s your favorite Randy Newman song? It’s so hard. But if I were naming five, one I would definitely push in there is “Louisiana 1927.” Because it tells you so ...

disemploying hundreds of thousands of Black field-workers,” said Randy Newman ... songwriter has written of the flood like Newman. “Louisiana 1927”, sung in the voice of one who escaped ...