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Mickey Newbury: `Frisco Mabel Joy. Mountain Retreat Productions MR 1269-2.
Sometimes, patience pays off. I first bought this album on vinyl around 1971 and fell in love with it. When CDs rolled around in the early eighties, I figured for sure its original producer, Elecktra Records, would transfer it to the new medium, considering its popularity and its outstanding sonic characteristics. Now, twenty years later, it appears on silver for the first time. The wait was worth it.
Mickey Newbury sings sentimental, nostalgic, country-folk songs, running high to lonesome train whistles, rainy nights, and distant thunder. He blends the best melodic qualities of Kris Kristofferson with the narrative properties of Tom T. Hall to yield wistful, melancholy, longing tunes about lonely nights and lost loves. With a voice that conveys all the passion of occasion, he is a consummate story teller as well as singer. His "American Trilogy" that opens the program was the biggest hit from the album, but a couple of others you'll enjoy are "The Future's Not What It Used To Be," "Mobile Blues," ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Mickey Newbury: `Frisco Mabel Joy. Mountain Retreat Productions...