Said Griffin Goldsmith: “I grew up a Randy Newman addict — it ... In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Newman’s mid-’70s song “Louisiana 1927” — about a Southern city being ...

Read more:Randy Newman on why he sold his publishing ... In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Newman’s mid-’70s song “Louisiana 1927” — about a Southern city being washed away ...

In 1974, Randy Newman opened his album “Good Old Boys ... as darkly hilarious as “Sail Away,” “Baltimore,” “Louisiana 1927” and “It’s Money That I Love”; he also digs ...

That Newman can sell a tune as warmhearted as ... the recurring flood myth of Louisiana 1927, the audacious Faust musical. But he has a habit of substituting analysis for statistics: Village ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...