If you are lucky enough to feel ... you won't do better than this performance.. thank you Mickey Newbury...for your songs and amazingly beautiful voice .
I found him in 1973, a cassette tape of Heaven Help the Child. His music carried me through some difficult times. When I read that he had gone home I cried.
Songs are funny lol you know. I’m listening to Waylon Willie and the boys and they mentioned a singer or someone that i had never heard of. First time I listened that close. I’m a curious person 😂suits me fine this time.
I was a lost soul in the '70s... at 17 I hadn't a clue as to what or where I could or should go in life. An older friend played his "After the Rains" album and I was immediately focused and calm. Mickey's song and voice have been a vital part of my life for over 40 years now... they are part of my soul. And I hope I can pass them on... thank you for this! btw it's incredible how deep and expressive his voice is so far from the mic...
I am a seventy year old music lover especially American singer songwriters like Guy and Townes but this performance is the most intense and emotionally and musically gig I have ever seen or heard.
0:00 I Just Dropped In 4:00 33rd of August 9:45 East Kentucky 12:45 Nights When I'm Sane 16:15 Heaven Help The Child 20:27 Genevieve 25:00 Easy Street 31:00 Your My Lady Now 35:00 San Francisco Mabel Joy 41:00 Earthquake 44:10 Saint Cecilia 46:45 Winter Winds Blow 51:40 What Will I Do 55:20 end
His lines from “Nights When I’m Sane” cut right through my soul. “I’m just one man, sometimes I wish I was three, I could take a forty-four pistol to me. Put one in my brain just for her memory. One more for my heart and I would be free”
0:00 I Just Dropped In 4:00 33rd of August 9:45 East Kentucky 12:45 Nights When I'm Sane 16:15 Heaven Help The Child 20:27 Genevieve 25:00 Easy Street 31:00 Your My Lady Now 35:00 San Francisco Mabel Joy 41:00 Earthquake 44:10 Saint Cecilia 46:45 Winter Winds Blow 51:40 What Will I Do 55:20 end 🤘
I was introduced to his music in 1972 when I was stationed in Panama. I was saddened when I heard of his passing from WBAP radio in Ft. Worth. He and Gordon Lightfoot could paint a picture.
My dear sweet cousin, Mickey will never be forgotten by any of us! He loved to write, and was too shy to sing for years so hated it, although he did! We will always remember your beautiful soul!
In the pantheon of the greatest songwriters during my lifetime, Leonard Cohen stands at the apex. Mickey Newbury stands next to him on the podium. Absolutely mesmerizing performance here. Leonard and Mickey share the penthouse in the Tower of Song..
Mickey was too viscerally expressive and bone-chilling for Nashville, and too understated, too "down home" for crossover success with career-making rock critics of the 1970s...he deserved so much more but the genius and the beauty of his music was too quiet and sly to ever reach the ears of consumers. I can't remember ever hearing him on the radio in the 1960s or 1970s. He is a giant...
Så bra. Och förmodligen så nära man kan komma utan droger, religion, makt- o rollspel etc. Tack Mickey (sitt med mig vid lägerelden). Och tack Michael Mckearn.
