Good Old Boys

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 62K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

If you disagree with someone — if you find what they think appalling — is there any value in talking to them? In the early 1970s, the talk show host Dick Cavett, the governor of Georgia Lester Maddox, and the singer Randy Newman tried to answer this question.

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0:00.0	This episode contains explicit language.
0:15.2	In the fall of 1974, the musician Randy Newman released an album called Good Old Boys.
0:21.6	The most beautiful song in the record is the third song on the first side.
0:25.8	Wait, can I prevail on you?
0:27.6	Did you steal a little bit of Marie?
0:29.2	Sure.
0:30.2	So I love that song so much.
0:31.8	Well, thank you very much.
0:36.2	It looked like a princess.
0:47.5	A night in it.
0:51.5	My name is Malcolm Gladwell.
1:00.5	You're listening to Revisionist History, my podcast about things overlooked and misunderstood.
1:06.6	This episode is about Randy Newman's Good Old Boys, one of the most remarkable albums
1:11.3	of its era.
1:12.8	I listened to it for the first time years ago.
1:16.1	But then I happened to listen to it again very recently and realized that Good Old Boys
1:20.2	is not an album you can hear just once and hope to do it justice.
1:24.8	Because it's not just remarkable, it's unsettling.
1:28.0	I don't think an album like this could be made today.
1:31.4	And by the end of this episode, I suspect you'll agree with me.
1:35.9	I decided to go to California, sit down with Randy Newman, and create a listeners guide
1:42.2	to one of the most perplexing works of music that I have ever encountered.
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