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Harps And Angels * (CD)

By: Randy Newman (Artist)

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Randy Newman discusses and performs "Feels Like Home" from his new album "Harps and Angels"

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DISC 1 for Harps And Angels * (CD) Album By Randy Newman (Artist)
1   Harps and Angels
2   Losing You
3   Laugh and Be Happy
4   Few Words In Defense of Our Country, A
5   Piece of the Pie, A
6   Easy Street
7   Korean Parents
8   Only A Girl
9   Potholes
10   Feels Like Home
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.90) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Newman works with piano, an orchestra and a Dixieland-style combo, using American musical tradition to amplify irony and yank heartstrings."
Rolling Stone (p.90) - Ranked #16 in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums Of 2008 -- "[He's] still fully armed with hilarious rage."
Spin (p.120) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The brilliantly nasty 'A Few Words In Defense of Our Country' flattens any other anti-Bush rant..."
Entertainment Weekly (p.68) - "The stunning title track -- an orchestrated mini-epic about a lout's near-death experience -- prove that Newman, at age 64, has more healthy bile in him than 64 angry twentysomethings." -- Grade: B+
Dirty Linen (p.85) - "The man has a knack for taking the most direct path the crux of the matter....He does set the stage for a powerful script."
Q (Magazine) (p.108) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Drolly funny and packed with the usual array of self-deluded fools and bigots, pride of place goes to 'A Few Words In Defense Of Our Country'..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.69) - Ranked #25 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2008" -- "The set bowls along with jokes aplenty..."
Blender (Magazine) (p.84) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Newman roots his compositions in uptown-New Orleans R&B, classy and swinging. He mixes in dense string arrangements, breezy horns, even pianette....This is Newman's most unwound album..."
Paste (magazine) (p.56) - "So many laugh-out-loud moments resonate beyond the punchline, and each new spin of the album reveals another."

Title Note

Personnel: Randy Newman (vocals, piano); Steve Donnelly (guitar); Greg Leiz (acoustic slide guitar, pedal steel guitar); Mitchell Froom (keyboards); Greg Cohen (bass guitar); Pete Thomas (drums).

By the release of 2008's HARPS AND ANGELS, Randy Newman was firmly entrenched in the pantheon of classic American songwriters. Always slightly out of step with the times, Newman's finest work is marked by a broad, timeless sense of American pop music that encompasses everything from George Gershwin and Jelly Roll Morton to Bob Dylan and the Beach Boys. Yet it is Newman's sardonic wit and razor-sharp sense of satire that makes his view of America as a whole so compelling.

On HARPS AND ANGELS, both elements of Newman's artistry are on display with a richness they haven't had in years. The album's opening (title) track finds the grizzled songsmith contemplating mortality and the Lord over a mellow, gently swinging melody, while "A Few Words in Defense of Country," the album's centerpiece, takes the complex sympathies displayed for the antiquated norms of the Deep South on 1974's GOOD OLD BOYS and applies it to 21st-century American barbarism. Newman's a sly political fox who loves to ruffle feathers, but when he's singing about loneliness and romantic longing, as on "Losing You" and "Feels Like Home," the sentiments are never maudlin and always true. Randy Newman is a national treasure, and as enigmatic, frustrating, and ultimately rewarding as the nation he so brilliantly skewers. HARPS AND ANGELS is proof that he still has quite a bit to say.

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5 out of 5 stars Great album! Short but sweet, September 3, 2008
By Piccolo
Finally Randy Newman has gone back from writing film soundtracks to his political roots! "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country" is a smart, sad, beautiful song, "A Piece of the Pie" and Korean Parents" are equally intelligent, funny, and profound. "Feels Like Home" is a classic and will bring you to tears. The albums only about a half-hour long, and definitely worth a listen!

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