"This is my country/These are my people," Randy Newman sings on his new album. Since this is Randy Newman, the people in question are all glued to their TVs, proud booboisie, but the catch of pride in his voice, the swell of the music, is completely genuine. It's the same tone Neil Diamond found on his last great hit, 1980's "America": "They're coming to America/Today!" I'm not convinced Diamond was any less cynical than Newman, either. And yes, Newman's "Sail Away," an immigrant song that happens to be a slave trader's sales pitch, is patriotic, too: you can have soggy feelings about the U.S.A. with clear eyes about its... More >>>