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Podcast: The Colin McEnroe Show
Episode: βA kind of musical Mark Twainβ: A look at Randy Newman
Description: Randy Newman has been nominated for 22 Academy Awards (heβs won twice), for 23 Grammy Awards (seven wins), and for three Primetime Emmy Awards (and he won all three). Bruce Springsteen has called him βour great master of American song and storytelling.β Jackson Browne says Randy Newman is βthe foremost satirist of our times.β And the composer John Williams has called him βa kind of musical Will Rogers or Mark Twain.β Critic Robert Hilburn has published what may well be the definitive biography of Newman, A Few Words in Defense of Our Country. This hour, Hilburn...