The singer, songwriter, and composer Randy Newman had a fascination with ... In his third album, Sail Away, he conjured a wide range of emotional and social nightmares by employing multilayered ...

That’s a Randy Newman song, too. His multitudes contain ... “12 Songs” (1970), “Sail Away” (1972) and “Good Old Boys” (1974). Deeply strange and profoundly subversive, even by ...

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 ...

Starting with “Sail Away” from 1972 — with its audacious ... spirit in Randy,” said Heidecker, an avowed Newman acolyte. “While Randy was satirically examining these characters on ...

In 1974, Randy Newman opened his album “Good Old Boys ... as perceptive and often as darkly hilarious as “Sail Away,” “Baltimore,” “Louisiana 1927” and “It’s Money That ...