Nonesuch Records will release the four-LP, vinyl-only, limited-edition The Randy Newman Songbook boxed set on September 23. The Randy Newman Songbook series—comprising solo recordings of songs from throughout Newman‘s career—previously included two volumes, released on CD in 2003 and 2011; the new box marks their first release on vinyl. Sixteen additional songs from a newly released third volume, along with five bonus tracks (“Feels Like Home,” “A Wedding in Cherokee County,” “Family Album: Homage to Alfred, Emil and Lionel Newman,” “I’m Dreaming” and “Wandering Boy”), join those first two volumes in a new, thematic sequencing, to create this new complete Songbook boxed set.
Mitchell Froom produced The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1 and was joined on Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 by Newman’s lifelong friend and colleague Lenny Waronker. Pre-orders for The Randy Newman Songbook boxed set are available here. (The Randy Newman Songbook boxed set will be released on CD and digital formats in late 2016.)
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The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 3 is also available on September 23 as a stand-alone CD and digital album. Pre-orders for Vol. 3 are available here.
Harps and Angels (2008) was Newman’s first album of new material since 1999. It was followed in 2011 by Vol. 2 of the Songbook series and a live CD and DVD recorded at London’s LSO St. Luke’s, where he was accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Robert Ziegler.
The boxed set includes such well known Newman songs as “I Love L.A.,” “Short People,” “Mama Told Me Not to Come” and “You’ve Got a Friend in Me.”
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Newman is currently working on his next album of new material, which Nonesuch will release in 2017. He has earned six Grammy Awards, two Academy Awards and three Emmy Awards. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
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