Un Samedi en Décembre captured Randy playing a career-spanning selection of his songs, mostly solo on piano. He was accompanied on a few tunes by a string section. Among the songs he performed were ...

Satire and parody are often attempted by musicians, but the hit-to-miss rate isn’t all that encouraging, truth be told. Finding songwriters who can deliver pointed commentary while also making people ...

Here’s an uncomfortable truth: Most musicians on the left write songs that lack a decent sense of humor about serious matters, whether past or present. Earnest idealists abound: Think of Woody Guthrie ...

In 1974, Randy Newman opened his album “Good Old Boys” with “Rednecks,” a song about American racism so honest and shocking — not least because Newman brandishes the N-word in the voice of his ...