Mickey Newbury

I Came to hear the Music (1974)


Produced by Chip Young, I Came to Hear the Music is Newbury's most diverse recording from his early period. Along with the bittersweet love songs that defy categorization, there are bona fide country waltzes like "You Only Live Once in a While,," rock & roll songs such as "Dizzy Lizzy" and "1 X I Ain't 2," and some blues and gospel. The rain and thunderstorms are back, and there are appearances by the Jordanaires and Bobby Emmons. The lushly orchestrated "countrypolitan" sound of "Yesterday's Gone" and the folk-country "If You See Her" mark two ends of the acoustic spectrum for Newbury. The last half of the album features the most diversity; it begins and ends with the aforementioned rock tracks, and Newbury, with his killer guitar pickers and piano player, could rock with anybody. Traffic sounds open "Organized Noise," which could have been a vintage Neil Diamond track, with its African percussion and off-meter rhyme. It's full of drama, of bitter reverie, of remorse, and as the orchestra swells behind the singer and the cut begins to open itself up, it just abruptly ends...a squandered idea, an emotion best left unexplored. There is also the ballad "Love Look (At Us Now)," which was covered by no less than five different artists, none of them coming close to Newbury's bone honest, tell-it-like-it-is delivery. The song is full of shame and bewilderment, unable to resolve the emotions contained within it (with the strings swelling repeatedly to underscore this) or stand against them. An amazing tome that lasts less than three minutes! Alas, this album sold only as well as its predecessors, but it pointed its creator in new directions, or at least revealed the many simultaneous directions he'd been capable traveling all along. ~ Thom Jurek


Tracks:

01. I Came to Hear the Music
02. Breeze Lullaby
03. You Only Live Once (In a While)
04. Yesterday's Gone
05. If You See Her
06. Dizzy Lizzy
07. If I Could Be
08. Organized Noise
09. Love, Look at Us Now
10. Baby's Not Home
11. 1 X 1 Ain't 2

52 MB @ 192 kbps, 38 min.

Credits:
Bergen White - Vocals, Voices
Billy Puett - Horn, Saxophone
Bobby Emmons - Organ, Keyboards
Buddy Harmon - Drums
Buddy Spicher - Drums
Charlie McCoy - Guitar, Harmonica
Chip Young - Guitar
David Briggs - Piano, Keyboards
Dennis Good - Horn
Diane Tidwell - Vocals, Voices




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Triad Studio Sessions (1991)


In mid-1991, Newbury recorded some demo tracks at Triad Studios in Eugene, Oregon, as a favour to the previous owner. He wasn't satisfied with the tracks, mostly covers, and they were never released. But on the two occasions when he sings his own songs, he goes off into two- or three-song medleys, and these just may be some of the best stuff he ever did.


TrackList:

01 - Genevieve - Lovers - How Many Times (M Newbury)
02 - Pledging My Love (D Robey/F Washington)
03 - They Will Never Take Her Love (L Payne)
04 - Unchained Melody (H Zarat)
05 - Ivory Tower (J Fulton/L Steele)
06 - You Win Again (H Williams)
07 - Summertime (G Gershwin)
08 - Just Dropped In - Wish I Was (M Newbury)

Lineup:
Mickey Newbury - guitar, vocals
Dale Bradley - cello




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In a New Age (1988)


Newbury is accompanied only by his own guitar playing, violinist "Arizona St. Marie" Rhines, and bassist Edgar Meyer. The versions of "Cortelia Clark," "Frisco Depot," "Poison Red Berries," "San Francisco Mabel Joy" and other Newbury regulars are sweeter and less emotionally piercing than his Elektra recordings.~ Kurt Wolff


Tracks:

01. All My Trials
02. Cortelia Clark
03. Wish I Was a Willow Tree
04. My Father Was a Sailor
05. Frisco Depot
06. Poison Red Berries
07. Once They Were Lovers
08. San Francisco Mabel Joy
09. An American Trilogy

@320 kbps.




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Rusty Tracks [1977]


Newbury hooks up with Bobby Bare as a producer and puts out Rusty Tracks, a record full of pedal steel guitars, fiddles, cut time rhythms, and lyrical darkness.


TrackList:

01. Leavin' Kentucky
02. Makes Me Wonder If I Ever Said Goodbye
03. Bless Us All
04. Hand Me Another Of Those
05. People Are Talking
06. Tell Him Boys
07. Shenandoah (Arr. Mickey Newbury)
08. The Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)
09. Danny Boy
10. In The Pines (Arr. Mickey Newbury)

@320 kbps | 72 MB | 31 min.


Credits:
Buddy Emmons (Guitar (Steel)), Buddy Emmons (Keyboards), Bobby Bare (Producer), Mickey Newbury (Guitar), Mickey Newbury (Vocals), Buddy Spicher (Fiddle), Lloyd Green (Guitar (Steel)), Laurie London (Percussion), Laurie London (Drums), Phil Baugh (Guitar), Bobby Wood (Keyboards), Larry Gatlin (Voices), Buzz Cason (Voices), Marilyn Hill Smith (Strings), Joseph Allen (Bass), Lea Jane Berinati (Voices), Hayword Bishop (Percussion), Hayword Bishop (Drums), Thomas Brannon (Voices), Johnny Christopher (Guitar), Bobby Emmons (Guitar (Steel)), Bobby Emmons (Keyboards), Rita Figlio (Voices), Janie Fricke (Voices), Don Gant (Voices), Ronnie Gant (Producer), Bobby Hardin (Voices), Yvonne Hodges (Voices), Jim Isbell (Percussion), Jim Isbell (Drums), Dave Kirby (Guitar), Wilfred Lehmann (Strings), Brent Maher (Engineer), David McKinley (Engineer), Terry McMillan (Harmonica), Ann Migliore (Strings), Alan Moore (Arranger), Alan Moore (Conductor), Alan Moore (Keyboards), Alan Moore (Voices), Farrell Morris (Percussion), Farrell Morris (Drums), Ron Oates (Keyboards), Al Pachucki (Engineer), Lynn Peterzell (Engineer), Tom Pick (Engineer), Kathryn Plummer (Strings), Norbert Putnam (Bass), Eberhard Ramm (Horn), Eberhard Ramm (French Horn), Cindy Reynolds (Harp), Billy Sanford (Guitar), Pamela Sixfin (Strings), Steven Maxwell Smith (Strings), Henry Strzelecki (Bass), Donald Teal, Jr. (Strings), Bobby Thompson (Banjo), Bobby Thompson (Guitar), Gary VanOsdale (Strings), David Vanderkooi (Strings), Bill Vandevort (Engineer), Duane West (Voices), Bergen White (Voices), Reggie Young (Guitar), John Allan Catching (Strings), Susie Galloway (Voices), Larrie Londin (Percussion), Larrie Londin (Drums), Bill Harris (Engineer), Frederick Edward Weatherly (Composer)





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