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Mickey Newbury: `Frisco Mabel Joy. Mountain Retreat Productions MR 1269-2.(Review)
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," ...
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...sang with splendor and renewed desire. Taking a pass on "Just Dropped In," Newbury did include his classic "San Francisco Mabel Joy," the epic story of a Georgia farmboy and a Bay Area hooker, redone for the fifth time on "Nights When I Am Sane," and...
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...recorded by more than 100 artists. Among his other more popular songs are "Why You Been Gone So Long," "San Francisco Mabel Joy," "Cortelia Clark," "She Even Woke Me up to Say Goodbye," "Makes Me Wonder If I Ever Said Goodbye," "How I Love...
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...Reed right on the title cut, and with "Crystal Ship" proves the Doors can be covered with quiet invention; and "Frisco Mabel Joy," a tribute to Nashville songwriter Mickey Newbury that broods as much as This Mortal Coil yet still comes off like a hootenanny...