Yeah! Wer hätte das gedacht, im Mai erscheint das Randy Newman Songbook Volume 2 inkl. Cowboy, Laugh & Be Happy etc.
On The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2, which Nonesuch Records will release on May 10, 2011, Randy Newman takes a fresh look at both classic and more recent work in new solo recordings of the Grammy, Oscar, and Emmy winner’s celebrated songs. The New York Times said of the 2003 first volume of his songbook: “The great craftsmanship is more apparent in the stripped-down context.” The Associated Press said, “Few singer-songwriters could inject more new life into solo piano versions of their work than Randy Newman.”
Songbook Vol. 2, which was co-produced by Mitchell Froom and Lenny Waronker, includes songs spanning from the 1968 album Randy Newman (“Cowboys”) through Newman’s most recent, 2008’s Harps and Angels (“Laugh and Be Happy” and “Losing You”). In anticipation of the new record’s release, Newman began his North American tour on February 11 in Baton Rouge, LA, and continues through April 22 in San Francisco, with a stop at New York City’s Town Hall on March 5. (See complete list below.)
Froom, who first worked with Newman on 1999’s Bad Love, produced Songbook Vol. 1 before co-producing Harps and Angels. “Mitchell is a great musician and is enormously helpful in every way imaginable,” Newman says. Waronker, who co-produced Harps and Angels with Froom, is Newman’s childhood friend and life-long champion; this is the eleventh of his albums on which the former head of Warner Bros. Records has served as producer, beginning with Randy Newman. “His instincts are better than mine, in some respects. He’s always been, for me, the most crucial person to my songwriting. I wanted to be the best that I could be. I always felt that Lenny wanted me to be better than that. I’m grateful to him.”
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