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Recordreviews Newman satiric tunes leaning towards subtlety By MICHAEL LAWSON The Canadian Press The stir that Randy Newman caused with his Little Criminals album particularly his blatant message to the short people of the world has had two vears to die down Its about time Newman opened his mouth again With his new release Born Again the bespectacled song writer confirms that hes not going out Of his way to win friends Yet his unabashed manner of turning the guns playfully on various segments of society is slowly winning him an amused following rHe may be opinionated to the point of excess but he usually can carry it off with his par ticular brand of nasty charm Newman went out on limb in 1977 with the tune Short People featuring such lines as You got to pick em up just to say hello and Short people got no reason to live The ra dio stations that banned the song and the little peoples or ganizations that protested it saw the lyrics as shocking at tack on the short But Newman insisted that Short People was merely intended to underscore social bigotry If he has similar worthy in tentions on Born Again they are not evident What is clear is that without tempering his nonsensical attacks he now is leaning more toward subtlety Among his targets this time around are moneygrubbers Its Money That Love fol lowthefold suburbanites Mr Sheep streettough Travolta clones Pretty Boys and gays Half Man It almost makes one wonder whether his heavily produced Story of Rock Roll Band is truly tribute to Electric Light Orc estra or merely snipe at assembly line rock groups NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY Newmans appeal lies in the fact that he takes neitsling self nor his music too seriously Thats obvious from his output or lack of it Born Again is his first album since 1977 and only his second in about five years He banks on the fact that his voice is that of character not singer but the offhand best selling albums in Through the Out Door Led Zéppelin Get the Knack The Knock Breakfast in America Supertramp throatiness of it works well es pecially within the framework of his silliness Some of his lyrics themselves are selfdeprecating For in stance hell refer to Bobby Joe playing the big violin the one that stands on the floor when the classically trained Newman knows full well that the big violin is actually called cello In the same vein hell add sardonic Part One to the song title The Girls In My Life despite the fact that the tune ends with him happily married with three cute little boys which in fact is the case The clownfaced moneywor shipper on Born Agains jacket warns listeners that they too should not take Newman too se riously and this has been his attitude since the mid19605 prime example is the I969 tune Love Story made popular by Peggy Lee which contained such gems as Well have kid Or maybe well rent one Hes got to be straight We dont want bent one Its too bad that Newman is so casual when it comes to his output As with Born Again his material in general is well worth the listening But only if youre not thin skinned BORN AGAIN Randy New man Warner Brothers XHS 3346 Ronnie Hawkins has been an institution in the Canadian pop music scene for as long as Can ada has had one But in stitutions tend to go out of fash Ion Thats the way it has been for the Arkansasborn Hawkins who came her during the 19505 In fact for the last few years his name has only really come up in connection with The Band the mighty Toronto group that once backed him as The Hawks and later went on to bigger things Now Hawkins has surfaced with new product The Hawk his first for United Artists and one that may well make him star again Unfortunately audiences can be cruel They tend to stick with an artist while hes hot and mil their eyes once he hits the comeback trail Roll the eyes but open the ears The Hawks is fresh freewheeling album finding Hawkins in his best medium country rock From the kickoff South in New Orleans the record spins with plenty of goodtime sounds lightly but crisply produced And while rockabilly is gener ally the tone Hawkins also serves up few offerings of 505style rock notably Sick and Tired and Aint Loving You Baby Prime cuts both with good commercial possibilities are Blue Moon of Kentucky and the quieter Shelter of Your Eyes THE HAWK Ronnie Hawkins United Artists UA LA968II Kris Kristofferson another longtime countryrock crooner may be due for sabbatical mighty showman live par ticularly when performing with wife Rita Coolidge Kristoffer son has fared less well on disc since the early days before the film world discovered his screen potential Perhaps movies have drained his passion for recording what ever the case on his later discs including the new Shake Hands Witthe Devil the en thusiasm clearly is lacking Gone are the hooks that once were sure bets in his music on tunes such as To Beat the Devil Sunday Morning Comin Down Bobby McGee and Help Me Make It Through the Night SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL Krist KIislullIIwn Monument ll 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