| | Randy Newman Land Of Dreams CD Randy Newman Discography of CDs
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The whip-smart songs of Randy Newman have always engaged melody with a poignant lyrical fury, making the ornery observor of American contradiction strangely comparable to English songwriters like the equally pissed-off and remorseful Elvis Costello. LAND OF DREAMS joins the sensitive grumbler with the eloquent producer and guitarist Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. Songs like the cheesy, buoyant "Falling in Love" (with guitarists Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Mike Campbell) play against haunting beauties like the autobiographical "Dixie Flyer" and the lovestruck "Something Special."
Although Newman misfires a bit with lumpy tracks like the weird-dude-on-acid headtrip of "'Masterman and Baby J," he makes it up in spades with "It's Money That Matters," a pointed, cynical diatribe aimed at Reagan-era "trickle-down" economics. "Roll with the Punches" takes a swing at the GOP as well, matching Newman's honky-tonk piano lope with the dark swell of his infuriated lyrics. The elegant touch of Knopfler, who also wrote the stunning soundtracks to LOCAL HERO and CAL, is evident throughout, especially on "Dixie Flyer." The song's long, slow fadeout on Newman's piano, Knopfler's gentle slide guitar and mandolin and the percussive chug of a distant train is as evocative as the bygone era it evokes.
Engineers include: Frank Wolf, Mark Linett, Neil Dorfsman.
Personnel includes: Randy Newman (vocals, piano); Jeff Lynne (guitar, keyboards); Mark Knopfler, Steve Lukather, Michael Landau, Dean Parks, Tom Petty (guitar); Daniel Higgins (flute, piccolo, tenor & baritone saxophones) Marc Russo (saxophone); Jerry Hey (trumpet, flugelhorn); Leland Sklar, Nathan East, Neil Stubenhaus (bass); Carlos Vega (drums).
Producers: Mark Knopfler, Jeff Lynne, Tommy Lipuma, Jerry Newton Howard.
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$13.85 John McDowell's SPEAKING THE MAMMA TONGUE mixes together a variety of sounds, styles, and cultures. In fact, this album would be best described as a musical melting pot. For example, "Dun Gabow" uses a marimba to mimic a pan (steel) drummer and the music of Trinidad. "Owl Dream," with its Native American flavor, centers on a mystical flute melody combined with rattles and throbbing percussion.
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$11.39 With a nod to the hails and strains of gritty Americana, Milwaukee, Wisconsin's Tom Vollman brings 'The Betty Violet', his debut solo LP, into a fold nestled gently between the schism of the high lonesome and the subtle promise of rapt forgiveness. Vollman (or more accurately the character/characters that occupy his wandering lyrics) finds himself in a dizzying swirl of desperation, weaving his way through 11 songs that, each unto their own, reveal stark, motion-picture glimpses into the broken, collective consciousness of rock-n-roll--a sometimes bleak obsession with the inescapable, laced with a hopefulness of tomorrow's would-be fortune. A trickle of blight remission haunts the aptly titled opening track, 'Glass City Lullaby', a wistful elegy on Sylvia Plath, followed by a lovesick ode to the boulevards ...
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