Amazon.com After two vastly contrasting LPs, Reprise filled the gap between Randy Newman's studio stays with this 1970 solo concert recording from the Bitter End in New York. Constructed around five songs from the eponymous first album and four from the second LP (12 Songs), it's rounded out with two selections that would later appear on Sail Away, another Newman didn't polish in the studio until 1977's Little Criminals ("I'll Be Home"), and two trifles--"Tickle Me" and "Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong"--that didn't turn up until 1998's four-disc box set, Guilty. Live has a modest, intimate appeal, but with all that redundancy, it's ultimately not essential. --Steven Stolder