MICKEY NEWBURY Looks Like Rain TEST PRESSING vinyl album VG+ RARE 1973

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MICKEY NEWBURY

Looks Like Rain LP vinyl record

TEST PRESSING

Comes in a generic white sleeve with plain paper inner sleeve

Catalog # ELEKTRA 7E-2007

This is the second disc of the 1973 double LP, Live At Montezuma Hall / Looks Like Rain

Formerly issued by Mercury Records (SR 61236) in 1968

C1

Write A Song A Song / Angeline

C2

She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye

C3

I Don't Think Much About Her No More

C4

T. Total Tommy

D1

33rd Of August / When The Baby In My Lady Gets The Blues

D2

San Francisco Mabel Joy

D3

Looks Like Baby's Gone

Will be packed with care in a proper LP mailing box with stiff protection on both sides.

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Info:

Live At Montezuma Hall was not a planned release, but when Elektra found out that an employee of radio station KPRI-FM, who had taped the broadcast, was planning on releasing it as a bootleg, it decided to package it with a re-release of Newbury's 1968 Mercury album Looks Like Rain, and eventually issued it as a single album.

BIO:

American songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music, a critically acclaimed recording artist, and a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was born May 19, 1940 in Houston, Texas and died September 29, 2002 in Vida, Oregon.

Ralph Emery referred to Newbury as the first "hippie-cowboy," and along with Johnny Cash and Roger Miller, he was one of the first to rebel against the conventions of the Nashville music society. The influence of the production methods can be heard in the albums Waylon Jennings went on to record in the 1970s (with instrumentation highly unconventional for country music), and his poetically sophisticated style of songwriting was highly influential on Kris Kristofferson, who later proclaimed, "I learned more about songwriting from him than any other writer... He was my hero and still is." Newbury gained a reputation as a "songwriter's songwriter" and a mentor to others. It was Newbury who convinced Roger Miller to record Kristofferson's "Me & Bobby McGee", which went on to launch Kristofferson as country music's top songwriter. Newbury is also responsible for getting Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark to move to Nashville and pursue careers as songwriters. Van Zandt later described how Newbury's voice impressed him: "I can't really call it 'explain' but I'd tried to tell Jeanene (Van Zandt's wife) about the sound of Mickey's voice and the guitar on a good night at the same time. It's hard; you can't do it. It's like from outer space. I've heard about people trying to explain a color to a blind person... There's no way to do it." During a show in Galway, Ireland, John Prine said, "Mickey Newbury is probably the best songwriter ever."

According to his official website, Newbury has had over 1,500 versions of his songs recorded across many genres of music. His work would be recorded by singers and songwriters such as Johnny Cash, Vampire Weekend, Bob Luman, Roy Orbison, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Bill Monroe, Johnny Rodriguez, Hank Snow, Ray Charles, Tony Rice, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy Wynette, Ray Price, Don Gibson, Ronnie Milsap, Brenda Lee, Charlie Rich, Lynn Anderson, David Allan Coe, Sammi Smith, Joan Baez, Tom Jones, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, John Denver, Kenny Rogers, Steve Von Till, B.B. King, Linda Ronstadt, Dax Riggs, Bobby "Blue" Bland, and Bill Callahan, among many others. Elvis Presley's cover of "An American Trilogy" is especially famous. Presley began performing the song in concert in 1972 and released it as a single. He performed it in the 1972 documentary Elvis on Tour and in his 1973 international satellite telecast Elvis—Aloha from Hawaii.

In 2020, fellow Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member Gretchen Peters released an album of Newbury songs entitled The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury, which received critical acclaim[15] and debuted at #1 on the FAI Folk chart and reached #1 on the UK Official Country Artists Albums Chart.

Many of Newbury's songs, such as "The Thirty-Third of August", "The Future Is Not What It Used To Be", and "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)", delve into the dark recesses of the human psyche. Newbury, who battled depression in his life, later reflected, "How many people have listened to my songs and thought, 'He must have a bottle of whiskey in one hand and a pistol in the other.' Well, I don't. I write my sadness."