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  Notes from executive producer Andrew Pattison
  country folk sing Mickey Newbury is our sixth compilation of artists celebrating the talents of an influential songwriter, following on from festival folk sing Gordon Lightfoot (2016), Judy Small (2013), Bob Dylan (2012), Eric Bogle (2011) and Joni Mitchell (2010). Marina Hurley came up with the concept and produced the first four albums and then assisted me to pay homage to two of my all-time favourite songwriters and singers, Gordon Lightfoot and, now, Mickey Newbury. These albums serve at least two purposes: to bring some great songs from over a generation ago to a new audience, and, as long as enough are purchased, to inject some funds into a charity called The Troubadour Foundation.
  
  Mickey Newbury was one of the all-time most successful songwriters in Nashville, and was the third biggest earner for publishers Acuff Rose, after Hank Williams and Don Gibson. Originally from Houston, Texas, as a teenager he sang tenor for a moderately successful vocal group called The Embers, who opened for several famous performers including Sam Cooke and Johnny Cash. But he put his musical career on hold and joined the Air Force at age nineteen, for a four year stint that included a lengthy spell in England. On return to the USA he set his sights on a career as a songwriter and before long he was in Nashville and signed to Acuff Rose. Soon after Don Gibson had a coutry hit with Newbury’s Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings, and then Tom Jones had a worlwide hit with the song. Two years later, in the same week Newbury had four top five songs across four different charts, Pop/Rock, Easy Listening, Country and R&B, the latter three being number ones. This feat has not been repeated; and it also shows that Mickey Newbury was not really a country artist: if anything he could be seen as folk, but his style is really unclassifiable. He was a magnificent singer with a huge range, and his albums were works of art, but not big sellers, in part because of their eclecticism and also his growing disdain with the music business, especially in Nashville. But as a writer he remained huge, with over 1000 covers of his songs, by artists ranging from Elvis to Andy Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis to Joan Baez, Kenny Rogers to Solomon Burke, etc., etc. I had the great good fortune to bring Mickey to Australia for his only tour here, in 1984. On the four nights that he performed at my Melbourne venue, The Troubadour, I have never seen so much love flow from an audience to a performer. They all felt Mickey was a personal friend who had helped them through troubled times with his songs. And he was totally charming throughout the tour, a true Southern Gentleman. Sadly Mickey died at age 62 in 2002 from emphysema. I miss him and his music. Andrew Pattison
  
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  By purchasing this CD you are furthering the mission of the Troubadour Foundation (est. 2007) to “Provide assistance and encouragement for the sustainability of Australian folk culture".
  
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