Mickey Newbury Collection


The Mickey Newbury Collection collects the ten albums Mickey Newbury released on three labels between 1969 and 1981 on an eight disc set. The set was released and is available through Mountain Retreat, a label run by Newbury and later Newbury's family. While Newbury had an impressive reputation as an artist and songwriter, at the time of the set's release in 1998, these recordings had been out of print for years. The original master tapes were lost by the labels, and so the recordings on the collection are digital transfers from virgin vinyl copies. The packaging replicates the original album art.
The collection includes the albums Looks Like Rain, Frisco Mabel Joy, Heaven Help The Child, Live At Montezuma Hall, I Came to Hear the Music, and Lovers on individual discs, as well as Rusty Tracks, and His Eye Is on the Sparrow, The Sailor and After All These Years on two combined discs. Newbury created a remarkable body of work, and while he is often classified as a country artist, the breadth of his artistic reach includes blues, soul, folk, rock, and traditional styles. Newbury frequently includes suites such as "Wrote A Song A Song/Angeline," "The Sailor/Song of Sorrow/Let's Say Goodbye One More Time," and the epic, and oft-covered "An American Trilogy" which combines "Dixie," "Battle Hymn of the Republic," and "All My Trials," and includes production effects such as rain, wind chimes, and strings. Other highlights of the set include "San Francisco Mabel Joy," "Apples Dipped in Candy," "Wish I Was," "Cortelia Clark," "The Future's Not What It Used To Be," "Let's Have A Party," "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye," "Sweet Memories."

Track listing

Disc One: Looks Like Rain

  1. "Wrote A Song A Song/Angeline"
  2. "She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye"
  3. "I Don't Think About Her No More"
  4. "T. Total Tommy"
  5. "The 33rd of August"
  6. "When The Baby In My Lady Gets The Blues"
  7. "San Francisco Mabel Joy"
  8. "Looks Like Baby's Gone"

    Disc Two: Frisco Mabel Joy

  9. "An American Trilogy"
  10. "How Many Times "
  11. "Interlude"
  12. "The Future's Not What It Used To Be"
  13. "Mobile Blue"
  14. "Frisco Depot"
  15. "You're Not My Same Sweet Baby"
  16. "Interlude"
  17. "Remember The Good"
  18. "Swiss Cottage Place"
  19. "How I Love Them Old Songs"

    Disc Three: Heaven Help The Child

  20. "Heaven Help The Child"
  21. "Good Morning Dear"
  22. "Sunshine"
  23. "Sweet Memories"
  24. "Why You Been Gone So Long"
  25. "Cortelia Clark"
  26. "Song For Susan"
  27. "San Francisco Mabel Joy"

    Disc Four: Live At Montezuma Hall

  28. "How I Love Them Old Songs"
  29. "Heaven Help The Child"
  30. "Earthquake"
  31. "Cortelia Clark"
  32. "I Came To Hear The Music"
  33. "San Francisco Mabel Joy"
  34. "Bugger Red Blues"
  35. "How Many Times "
  36. "An American Trilogy"
  37. "Please Send Me Someone To Love"
  38. "She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye"

    Disc Five: I Came to Hear the Music

  39. "I Came To Hear The Music"
  40. "Breeze Lullaby"
  41. "You Only Live Once "
  42. "Yesterday's Gone"
  43. "If You See Her"
  44. "Dizzy Lizzy"
  45. "If I Could Be"
  46. "Organized Noise"
  47. "Love, Look At Us Now"
  48. "Baby's Not Home"
  49. "1 X 1 Ain't 2"

    Disc Six: Lovers

  50. "Apples Dipped In Candy"
  51. "Lovers"
  52. "Sail Away"
  53. "When Do We Stop Starting Over"
  54. "Lead On"
  55. "How's The Weather"
  56. "If You Ever Get To Houston "
  57. "You Always Got The Blues"
  58. "Let Me Sleep"
  59. "Good Night"

    Disc Seven: Rusty Tracks/His Eye Is on the Sparrow

  60. "Leavin' Kentucky"
  61. "Makes Me Wonder If I Ever Said Goodbye"
  62. "Bless Us All"
  63. "Hand Me Another Of Those"
  64. "People Are Talking"
  65. "Tell Him Boys"
  66. "Shenandoah"
  67. "That Lucky Old Sun
  68. "Danny Boy"
  69. "In The Pines"
  70. "Juble Lee's Revival"
  71. "Westphalia Texas Waltz"
  72. "Wish I Was"
  73. "His Eye Is On The Sparrow"
  74. "The Dragon And The Mouse"
  75. "Gone To Alabama"
  76. "It Don't Matter Anymore"
  77. "I Don't Know What They Wanted Me To Say"
  78. "Saint Cecilia"
  79. "Juble Lee's Revival Shout"

    Disc Eight: The Sailor/After All These Years

  80. "Blue Sky Shinin'"
  81. "Let's Have A Party"
  82. "There's A Part Of Her Still Holding On Somehow"
  83. "A Weed Is A Weed"
  84. "Let It Go"
  85. "Looking For The Sunshine"
  86. "Darlin' Take Care Of Yourself"
  87. "Long Gone"
  88. "The Night You Wrote That Song"
  89. "The Sailor"
  90. "Song Of Sorrow"
  91. "Let's Say Goodbye One More Time"
  92. "That Was The Way It Was Then"
  93. "Country Boy Saturday Night"
  94. "Truly Blue"
  95. "Just As Long As That Someone Is You"
  96. "Over The Mountain"
  97. "Catchers In The Rye"
  98. "I Still Love You "