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• Song of the Day #1,051: ‘Just My Heart Talkin” – Ron Sexsmith

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  Ron Sexsmith kept up his pace of releasing an album every two years, putting out Blue Boy in 2001. I believe this might have been my first exposure to his music, as it was his highest profile release to that date. In keeping with the old entry point theory, I [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,050: ‘Losing You’ – Randy Newman

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  If Randy Newman fans hoped Bad Love would be the first in a long string of new releases, they were sorely disappointed. It was a full nine years before Newman released another studio album, 2008′s Harps and Angels. Harps and Angels picks up pretty much where Bad Love left off, [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,049: ‘I Miss You’ – Randy Newman

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  Five years after Trouble in Paradise, Randy Newman released 1988′s Land of Dreams, another album I inexplicably don’t own. That one wasn’t as universally acclaimed as his 70s work but I’m sure it’s worth a listen. And following Land of Dreams, Newman went silent. Well, maybe that’s not the way [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,048: ‘Real Emotional Girl’ – Randy Newman

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  I’m jumping ahead 11 years to Randy Newman’s 1983 album Trouble in Paradise. Newman released three other albums between Sail Away and this one — Good Old Boys, Little Criminals and Born Again — but for some inexplicable reason I don’t own them. Writing this blog, I sometimes run into [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,047: ‘Memo to My Son’ – Randy Newman

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  In 1972, Randy Newman released Sail Away, his most enduring masterpiece. He’s done some amazing work in the 40 years since, but I can’t say he’s ever topped it. The title track sets the stage beautifully. Against a majestic piano tune and soaring strings, Newman sings America’s praises from the [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,046: ‘Rosemary’ – Randy Newman

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  Of the artists I hold most dear, Randy Newman has gotten the least exposure on the blog to date. I’ve featured only three of his songs over the past few years. I plan to remedy that over the next two weeks. Initially I planned to do a traditional 5-day theme [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,045: ‘Seem to Recall’ – Ron Sexsmith

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  Ron Sexsmith has borrowed from Bob Dylan the tendency to put his strongest songs at the end of his albums. Sexsmith usually ends his records with a romantic ballad (I mentioned Brad Paisley recently as an expert modern-day writer of love songs, and Sexsmith shares the talent). ‘April After All,’ [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,044: ‘The Idiot Boy’ – Ron Sexsmith

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  Ron Sexsmith’s third album, 1999′s Whereabouts, featured slicker production than his first two and was a little more adventurous musically. On the whole, I like the songs a little less than the earlier material, but that’s nitpicking. References to God show up a lot in Sexsmith’s work, and I’m not [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,043: ‘Pale Blue Eyes’ – The Velvet Underground

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  While choosing songs for two straight weeks of covers, I reflected back on R.E.M.’s version of this Velvet Underground classic. But rather than post their version, I’m reaching back to the original. I didn’t know anything at all about The Velvet Underground before I heard R.E.M.’s ‘Pale Blue Eyes,’ released [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,042: ‘Bum Like You’ – Robyn

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  Any reader of Entertainment Weekly has probably noticed the crush that publication has on Robyn. The degree to which they evangelize for her is almost comical. Regardless of my opinion of the pixie-like Swedish performer, I love to see that kind of promotion of an underdog. Hell, I’m the guy [...]
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