Mickey was born this day in 1940. He passed away in 2002.
Bill Callahan released a new single where on the A-side is Mickey Newbury singing 'Heaven Help the Child,' and the B-side is Callahan's cover.
Chicago indie record company Drag City recently reissued music from 1960s and '70s singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury . Now the label released a split 7 inch featuring Newbury plus Bill Callahan covering one of Newbury's songs, Heaven Help the Child . Check out the video of Callahan singing the song below.
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Watch the video for Bill Callahan 's cover of Mickey Newbury 's 1973 track "Heaven Help The Child" . Earlier this week Drag City released a split 7"; on the A-side of it you had country singer/songwriter Mickey Newbury 's "Heaven Help The Child" from 1973, and on the B-side you had Bill Callahan 's cover of the track. Bill Callahan 's terrific take on the song now has a black-and-white video to go [...]
Bill Callahan lisää yhden onnistuneen coverin ansioluetteloonsa. Tällä kertaa vuorossa on laulaja-lauluntekijä Mickey Newburyn vuonna 1973 julkaisema, eeppinen Heaven Help The Child. "So if old acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind. Let's sip a cup of kindness, For my friends. Today's gone by."
Callahan covers Mickey Newbury's 1973 classic.
Indie survivor Bill Callahan recently covered "Heaven Help The Child," a history-minded 1973 song from country-music outsider Mickey Newbury. And now Callahan's version has a video, a black-and-white single-shot thing that transposes Callahan's face with an image of a tree. The video itself is minimal, but more than anything, it's an excuse to hear Callahan's cover, which is triumphant. Watch it below. Read More...
Bill Callahan "Heaven Help The Child" from Drag City on Vimeo . And if you're anti-video, you can pick up Mickey Newbury's original and Callahan's cover on the same 7" released from Drag City yesterday, here .
Bill Callahan - Heaven Help The Child (Mickey Newbury cover)

After a year of trying to set up a court hearing, Uptight Psychotic Roommate finally settled by giving my full deposit back. To be honest, I'm surprised it went that far, I mean what kind of person just refuses to give back your deposit, after you've threatened legal actions? Well, you meet all sorts of people in London. Hear hear for a positive start to the new year, a year with no negative roommates, no legal battles, and a new haircut. CLEMENCE RECOMMENDS... MICKEY NEWBURY [...]

Regardless of your spiritual allegiance or thoughts regarding freezing temperatures, the winter/holiday season is an interesting one. There's something about this period of the calendar year that just feels different from everything else. Summer has the vibe and energy of hot, sticky freedom; spring lives and breathes with the promise of a reawakening; and fall is all about getting in line and preparation. Winter, though, is slightly more splintered. Some people see Christmas/Hanukkah/the Winter Solstice/Festivus as a time for family and friends and celebrating the inherent warmth and goodness in us all. Others view these as tired traditions, [...]
The interwoven instrumentals, plus the sound of rain and other noises, connect all the tracks to each other and to the two previous discs. Critics and fans treat these three albums as one, and indeed they can be heard that way when played in succession. First, do not let the name of the Mickey Newbury box set, An American Trilogy confuse you. The box contains four, not three, compact discs. However, the set does include the trilogy of the pioneering country-rock singer-songwriter's interrelated classic albums made between 1969-1973 in their entirety (Looks Like Rain, 'Frisco Mabel Joy, and Heaven [...]
Lagniappe (la·gniappe) noun \ˈlan-ˌyap,' - 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. Welcome to the second installment of the Lagniappe Sessions in which we invite some of our favorite artists to cut exclusive covers paying tribute to some of their favorite artists. This week's [...]

"Uncle Sam needs you, Boy I'm a gonna cut your hair off Take this rifle, Kid Gimme that gui-tar Yea-ah..." Today, on the 4th of July, when we Americans do what we do to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence (eat meat, drink beer, and blow shit up), let us pause and reflect on the glory that is "The All American Boy." In 1958, when Bobby Bare was about be inducted into the Army and [...]

The solo output of US songwriter Mickey Newbury (1940 – 2002) has always been overshadowed by more high-profile recordings of his tunes by stars the calibre of Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison (and more recently Will Oldham and Nick Cave). Apart from proving that Newbury was the by far the best interpreter of his own songs, this overdue, luxurious package that compiles three seminal yet long out-of-print early solo albums cut for Mercury and Elektra at Newbury's late 60s/early 70s creative peak (complete with a fourth disc of demos, rarities and a previously unreleased radio session) leaves some [...]
A treasure trove of music.
From the late 1960s through the early '70s, Mickey Newbury released a string of classic albums that helped to redefine the definitions of/blur the boundaries between country, folk, and the burgeoning singer/songwriter movement. The word "seminal" gets thrown around pretty loosely these days, but to give you an idea of Newbury's importance in the aforementioned context, both Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark made their initial move to Nashville because their fellow Texan Newbury was there, and Kris Kristofferson, another Lone Star export to Music City, once said "I learned more about songwriting from Mickey than I did any other [...]
An American musician returns with a trilogy of his best albums.