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Newman split with his longtime record company Reprise in early 1999. He signed with DreamWorks and released Bad Love, his first proper album since 1988's Land of Dreams, in the summer of 1999. A number of film projects followed, and Newman once again put his solo career on hiatus while composing music for several movies. In 2003, Newman signed with the artist-friendly Nonesuch label, and that year he released his label debut, The Randy Newman Songbook, in which he performed new solo piano and vocal arrangements of some of his most celebrated songs. (A second Songbook album was released in 2011, and Vol. 3 appeared in 2016.) Newman returned in 2008 with Harps and Angels, an album that revisited the biographical approach first attempted with Land of Dreams. In 2009 and 2010, Newman focused his creative energies on film music, scoring The Princess and the Frog and Toy Story 3; both earned Oscar and Grammy nods, and in the case of Toy Story 3, wins. He returned in 2017 with yet another Pixar soundtrack, Cars 3. Later the same year, Newman also released Dark Matter, a witty and often topical set that was his first album of new songs in nine years. Film scores continued to be Newman's bread and butter, and 2019 saw the release of the soundtrack to Marriage Story, a comedy-drama starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver. Newman also supplied the music to Toy Story 4, earning his 23rd Grammy nomination in the process for the song "The Ballad of the Lonesome Cowboy." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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