12 Songs

by Randy Newman

12 Songs cover art

Shedding the heavy orchestration of his debut for a delightfully ragged, swampy rock-and-roll backing, Randy Newman delivered an absolute masterclass in cynical American songwriting. '12 Songs' is wonderfully warm and fiercely sarcastic, pairing incredibly humorous, remarkably deadpan vocal deliveries with highly satirical, blues-inflected character studies.

Genres

  • Singer-Songwriter

Tracklist

  1. Have You Seen My Baby?
  2. Let's Burn Down the Cornfield
  3. Mama Told Me Not to Come
  4. Suzanne
  5. Lover's Prayer
  6. Lucinda
  7. Underneath the Harlem Moon
  8. Yellow Man
  9. Old Kentucky Home
  10. Rosemary
  11. If You Need Oil
  12. Uncle Bob's Midnight Blues