Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
I think this is the first song of his I have ever posted. I think it was because in the old days to call someone a country singer was cause for me to slide right over without listening. I have since learned better. This is from his 1971 album Frisco Mabel Joy. MP3 File yousendit
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
Nashville, TN -- Innovative steel guitarist Weldon Myrick will be honored at the Country Music Hall of Fame(r) and Museum on Saturday, August 15, as part of the popular quarterly series Nashville Cats: A Celebration of Music City Musicians. The 1:30 p.m. program in the Museum's Ford Theater is included with Museum admission and free to Museum members. ...
JackRabbit Café (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
This post's title comes from a lyric written by Mickey Newbury and performed by The First Edition, with Kenny Rogers on lead vocal. Lee Stranahan is a freelance writer, photographer and filmmaker whose pre-exisiting medical condition and self-employed status leave him unable to get a health care insurance policy. I know how he feels. Lee made 10 short health care reform videos which he describes as...
The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
A 40-year old clip from The Smothers Brothers show. From Wikipedia : "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" is a song written by Mickey Newbury. Said to reflect the LSD experience, the song was intended to be a warning against the danger of using LSD. First recorded in 1967 by Jerry Lee Lewis, who rejected it, it was a hit for The First Edition (with Kenny Rogers on...
Social Sense (Free subscription) | 05/24/2009
Songwriter Mickey Newbury helped make popular this performance by Elvis Presley in 1972, arranged as “An American Trilogy”; it is a medley of three 19th Century songs representing America’s civil conflict experience, but I also believe this song may be one of the most powerful musical presentations ever performed. Nearly a 700,000 people died in the war to set black Americans free,...
Coral and Opal (Free subscription) | 05/23/2009
Mickey Newbury would have been 69 this week. To honor him - and more importantly - to honor our fallen soldiers, I leave you with this to head into the weekend. Please remember those who gave what Lincoln called "the last full measure of devotion" in the cause of freedom. Happy Memorial Day.
Power Line (Free subscription) | 05/17/2009
Mickey Newbury grew up in Houston wanting to become a songwriter. In the event, he became one of the several talented songwriters who brought new life to country music in the late sixties and early seventies. Some such as Willie Nelson, Tom T. Hall and Kris Kristofferson went on to successful performing careers of their own. Others such as Townes Van Zandt and Newbury also recorded their own work,...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 05/12/2009
Townes Van Zandt was so revered in music circles that when the Texas singer-songwriter died unexpectedly in 1997
Bedazzled! (Free subscription) | 05/04/2009
From Wikipedia: "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" is a song written by Mickey Newbury. Said to reflect the LSD experience, the song was intended to be a warning against the danger of using LSD....
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Fans of guitars and fiddles will get their annual gift from WKCR (89.9 FM) this coming weekend when the station rolls out its Country Music Festival.
Listen Up (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
Steve Jones is at the playlist controls this week, dishing out a rappers's reggae comeback, the latest hip-hop, neo-soul and a Kenny Rogers cover along the way. > Pick of the week: Long Distance Girlfriend, Heavy D: After more than...
Brookhaven National Laboratory News (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Contemporary folksinger, guitarist and songwriter James O’Malley will give a concert at Brookhaven Lab on Friday, October 3, at 7 p.m. at the Brookhaven Center. Sponsored by the BNL Music Club, the concert is open to the public.
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Darrell Scott Modern Hymns Darrell Scott is a master musician, a songwriter who balances the story telling lines of folk music with the hooks of contemporary country and the musical solid structures that classic country writers built on. Suzy Bogguss, herself a musician who’d emerged from the folk music world to settle in Nashville, was the first [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
An associate of the country outlaw generation that included Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, Larry Jon Wilson's burly baritone burr brought tableaux like "Ohoopee River Bottomland" and "Sheldon Church Yard" to vivid life, but his refusal to compromise curtailed his Seventies career after just a few albums.
allmyvinyl (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Artist: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Title: Ask Forgiveness Format: EP Label: Domino Catalogue Number: WIGLP212 Year of Release: 2007 Tracklisting A1 I Came Here To Hear The Music (4:42) A2 I've Seen It All (3:42) A3 Am I Demon (3:44) A4 My Life (4:03) B1 I'm Loving The Street (2:39) B2 The Way I Am (4:14) B3 Cycles (4:09) B4 The World's Greatest (2:28) Once again Will...
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