Stream Randy Newman’s Ambitious, Hilarious New Album Dark Matter
Today, NPR has the advance stream of Randy Newman’s excellent 11th studio album Dark Matter. Some of the material has been available previously: his vaudevillian character sketch of the Russian President “Putin” and his theme song for Monk “It’s a Jungle Out There” (which is present here in a new, extended version), in particular. Last week, Newman premiered “Sonny Boy,” in which blues singer Sonny Boy Williamson (the first) discusses getting the short end of the stick in his music career from beyond the grave.
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