![]() ![]() Small surprise, when Newman invited requests, no one asked for 'Rednecks.' ![]() The centerpiece of the album, a haunting tryptic on the causes and effects of Huey Long's demagoguery, was a graduate seminar on 20th-century cracker pathos. ![]() For an artist who had made his name on the droll, 'Good Old Boys,' was uncharacteristically direct, sledgehamering racial bigotry ('Rednecks'), whiskey-soaked self-pity ('Marie'), classism ('Have Pity on the Working Man'), and small-town provincialism ('Birmingham'). Not long before, Newman had released 'Good Old Boys,' as fiery a torch to the South as anything Sherman lit. By Tom Lee In 1977, the same year our beloved editor was having life-changing conversations with Gregg Allman in the interest of all that was and could yet be in the South, an older buddy drove me to the dingy quarters of the Knoxville Civic Auditorium to see Randy Newman burn it all down. ![]()
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