Is Randy Newman A Redneck Cole Porter Or Just Strange?

November, 1975

Randy Newman is chary of interviewers by reflex, bless his level sense, but bent even more unbendingly in that direction since the critical shit storm mounted in the pop-squeak press against his fifth album of art songs, Good Old Boys. Six months after the record's notoriety-nagged release in late 1974, the jowly, bespectacled composer/pianist/singer mumbles a wan hello and drops to a feral crouch on a leather sofa in a posh little parlor adjacent to his agent's office, high up in one of those h...