RANDY NEWMAN The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2 (2011 UK 16-track CD album - On 'The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2', the second in a proposed three-volume retrospective, the singer and songwriter offers another engrossing solo set, just piano and voice, that swings between the hilarious and the heartbreaking, sometimes brilliantly encompassing both. Opening track 'Dixie Flyer' remains one of his most personal, a look back at the boyhood time he spent in New Orleans, while 'My Life Is Good' is among his most outrageous, in which a proudly obnoxious master of the universe is brought up short by a scolding school teacher. 'Lucinda' seems like a wistful seaside reverie until you realise it's about a woman who gets run over by a beach buggy; closing track 'Cowboy' is the melancholy flipside to the celebrated odes Newman has written to Toy Story's hero Woody)