The new Randy Newman tune "A Piece of the Pie," from his recent Nonesuch release, Harps and Angels, has made its way onto the Boston Globe's list of "The 1 Thing You Must Do, See, or Hear This Week." The Globe's Joan Anderman names it "The 1 Great Election-Season Lyric," calling the record "savagely patriotic" and introducing lyrics from the song this way: "We could go on and on about Randy Newman's rapier wit, but his words speak for themselves."

She quotes Randy:

It stinks here high and low
The rich are getting richer
I should know
While we're going up
You're going down
And no one gives a [expletive] but Jackson Browne.

To read the list, visit boston.com. To read all the song's and album's lyrics, click here. To watch a video interview with Randy, in which he discusses "A Piece of the Pie," visit nonesuch.com/media.

Randy's North American tour with music from Harps and Angels and throughout his career begins at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill, New York, tomorrow evening. He'll head down state later in the week for two big events in the City: a free in-store performance at the Apple Store in SoHo Thursday evening and a show at Carnegie Hall Friday night.

The New Yorker previews the Carnegie Hall show by calling the new album "a welcome, witty throwback to the days when his songs were snide, ironic, edgy, controversial, and, oh yeah, really funny."

Leading up to the start of the tour, Randy spoke with The Village Voice's Sound of the City blog about his songwriting process, the impact his songs have had over the years (not least "Louisiana 1927," given its new life as a post-Katrina anthem for New Orleans), and the prospect of playing on such a grand stage as Carnegie Hall's. To read the interview, visit blogs.villagevoice.com.