Old Man

A cover of my very favorite Randy Newman song, which is also maybe the saddest song I know.

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posted by ORthey (6 comments total)

wow. that was sad. but good. and i guess not listening to randy newman has been an oversight on my part.
posted by snofoam at 2:39 PM on July 28, 2007

Oversight, ya me too. I had no idea that Newman wrote such beautiful stuff. This is really great ORthey!

I'll never get tired of your picking and singing.
posted by snsranch at 2:56 PM on July 28, 2007

Thanks guys!

snofoam, I highly recommend getting Sail Away. One of the best albums every made, IMHO. He sullied his rep with all his Disney stuff, but in the 70s he was amazing.
posted by ORthey at 3:12 PM on July 28, 2007

This is some lovely picking. Am off to download a whole bunch of yours now.
posted by Jofus at 6:05 AM on July 30, 2007

Jofus, yea, ORthey is right on. I don't mean to be all sentimental about it, but the smoothness is like, "there couldn't be anything more natural in the world". I've been lucky enough to hang out with some really good/fast finger-folk, but ORthey's low-key brilliance knocks me out.

(off to practice some banjo)
posted by snsranch at 7:08 PM on July 30, 2007

im kinda late on the comment board but nice cover. I had to see the other newman post on here, you win and i won't ever post any more newman.
posted by BrnP84 at 2:09 AM on January 17