Randy Newman: Little Criminals
Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 29 October 1977
ON THE SLEEVE, Randy Newman looks as dour as one of the rednecks he dissected with such fiendish accuracy in his last studio album, Good Old Boys, three years ago.
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