Blog: Dylan, Etc

Having played at Northampton's Calvin Theater only a year before ( I was there ), Randy Newman didn't quite have the panache to pack it a second time. For those who did dot the theater's seats, however, Newman performed his acidly satirical songs as if for the first time there or anywhere, peppering tales of racists, perverts, and murderers with witty quips and rambling anecdotes. Those who know Ne wman only from his Disney/Pixar work such as "You've Got a Friend in Me" and the Oscar-winning "If I Didn't Have You" miss the truly different [...]