The Original Album
A1 Rednecks 3:07
A2 Birmingham 3:45
A3 Marie 3:07
A4 Mr. President (Have Pity On The Working Man) 2:45
A5 Guilty 2:30
B1 Louisiana 1927 2:54
B2 Every Man A King 1:02
B3 Kingfish 2:42
B4 Naked Man 3:06
B5 Wedding In Cherokee County 3:07
B6 Back On My Feet Again 3:36
B7 Rollin’ 2:53
B8 Marie (Bonus Track) 2:45
Johnny Cutler’s Birthday
C1 Rednecks 4:38
C2 If We Didn’t Have Jesus 3:40
C3 Birmingham 2:37
C4 The Joke 3:59
C5 Louisiana 2:55
C6 My Daddy Knew Dixie Howell 2:56
D1 Shining 4:21
D2 Marie 3:36
D3 Good Morning 3:00
D4 Birmingham Redux 2:20
D5 Doctor, Doctor 2:49
D6 Albanian Anthem 1:41
D7 Rolling 4:10
Good Old Boys is the fourth studio album by Randy Newman, released on 10 September 1974 on Reprise Records, catalogue number 2193. It was Newman's first album to obtain major commercial success, peaking at number 36 on the Billboard 200. The premiere live performance of the album took place on October 5, 1974, at the Symphony Hall in Atlanta, Georgia, with guest Ry Cooder and Newman conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Good Old Boys was initially envisioned as a concept album about a character named Johnny Cutler, an everyman of the Deep South. Newman made these songs on February 1, 1973: they were released as the bonus disc for the 2002 reissue, titled Johnny Cutler's Birthday. The kernel of this concept survived into the released album, although as Newman's take on viewpoints from the inhabitants of the Deep South in general, rather than from a single individual character. As on his previous release, Newman addressed generally taboo topics such as slavery and racism, most stringently on the opening song "Rednecks", a simultaneous satire on institutional racism in the Deep South and the hypocrisy of the northern states in response. This expanded edItion features a second disc that includes the Johnny Cutler demos on vinyl for the first time. The original album tracks were cut directly from the analog master tapes.