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 ...

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 ...