Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075597998931
Label: Nonesuch
Manufacturer: Nonesuch
MPN: 122812
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Nonesuch
Release Date: August 05, 2008
Studio: Nonesuch

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Disc 1:

1. Harps and Angels
2. Losing You
3. Laugh and Be Happy
4. A Few Words
5. A Piece of the Pie
6. Easy Street (3:14)
7. Korean Parents
8. Only a Girl
9. Potholes
10. Feels Like Home

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Randy Newman's first studio album of all new material in nearly a decade is, by turns, hilarious, poignant and scathingly satirical. Harps and Angels often has an easy going Crescent City feel, with Newman on piano fronting a small combo and revealing, as Rolling Stone put it after the Carnegie Hall show, his serious love and study of the New Orleans piano tradition.

Album Description:
Randy Newman's 2008 studio album titled Harps and Angels. Produced by Mitchell Froom and Lenny Waronker, it contains seven new songs and three updated versions of previously released songs.




Rating: - It Just Couldn't Last
Now, I LOVE Randy Newman, but it has happened before, some of his older albums were simply generic blues... sounds all the same, and none of it very interesting.

But, going back twenty years or so, with the "Born Again" Album, "Trouble in Paradise", "Little Criminals", and especially "Land of Dreams" we were given really very good MUSIC. I play piano myself, and at least one or two songs per Album were fun to play. Not like all his earlier stuff, just stupid drug soaked sorry for ... Read More

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Rating: - Not enough


Same old Randy at his critical best. I wish it would have been longer.

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Rating: - Harps and Angels
Someone finally told me the name of the singer I've heard in movies etc. I love his voice, and his style. This is a great album.

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Rating: - Yeah, it's good, but...
This is less than 35 minutes long!!! I'm sick and tired of waiting for material only to be given a tapas sized portion, at an entree price.

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Rating: - a classic randy newman record
It's a very good disc with beautifull songs. Fantastic well-known irony, beautifull arrangements, orchestration, it's all there.

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