Randy Newman has been nominated for 22 Academy Awards (he鈥檚 won twice), for 23 Grammy Awards (seven wins), and for three Primetime Emmy Awards (and he won all three).
Bruce Springsteen has called him 鈥渙ur great master of American song and storytelling.鈥� Jackson Browne says Randy Newman is 鈥渢he foremost satirist of our times.鈥� And the composer John Williams has called him 鈥渁 kind of musical Will Rogers or Mark Twain.鈥�
Critic Robert Hilburn has published what may well be the definitive biography of Newman, .
This hour, Hilburn joins us to talk Randy Newman.
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- Robert Hilburn: Author of A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman
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