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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Randy Newman |
| Record Label: |
Reprise |
| Contributing Artist: |
Tom Petty |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Subgenre: |
Singer/Songwriter |
| Release Date: |
September 26, 1988 |
| Album Duration: |
40m:18s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Dixie Flyer 2. New Orleans Wins the War 3. Four Eyes 4. Falling in Love 5. Something Special 6. Bad News From Home 7. Roll With the Punches 8. Masterman and Baby J. 9. Red Bandana 10. Follow the Flag 11. It's Money That Matters 12. I Want You to Hurt Like I Do |
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Personnel includes: Randy Newman (vocals, piano); Jeff Lynne (guitar, keyboards); Mark Knopfler, Steve Lukather, Michael Landau, Dean Parks, Tom Petty (guitar); Daniel Higgins (flute, piccolo, tenor & baritone saxophones) Marc Russo (saxophone); Jerry Hey (trumpet, flugelhorn); Leland Sklar, Nathan East, Neil Stubenhaus (bass); Carlos Vega (drums). Producers: Mark Knopfler, Jeff Lynne, Tommy Lipuma, Jerry Newton Howard. Engineers include: Frank Wolf, Mark Linett, Neil Dorfsman. The whip-smart songs of Randy Newman have always engaged melody with a poignant lyrical fury, making the ornery observor of American contradiction strangely comparable to English songwriters like the equally pissed-off and remorseful Elvis Costello. LAND OF DREAMS joins the sensitive grumbler with the eloquent producer and guitarist Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. Songs like the cheesy, buoyant "Falling in Love" (with guitarists Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Mike Campbell) play against haunting beauties like the autobiographical "Dixie... |
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