Son dernier album studio avant le grand saut !

Tentez quand même ! Avec des musiciens plus nombreux et quelques chansons à tomber par terre ! Telle que
So Sad par exemple... Pendant l'enregistrement de ce disque Newbury devait souvent prendre de l'oxygène en raison de son emphysème - et ben ça s’entend pas mais bordel quel enregistrement.
Perso, c'est juste l'album proposé par vox qui ne me botte pas plus que ça, sinon la plupart du temps, ce que je connais du bonhomme, me plaît beaucoup.
Ainsi, la chanson-titre de cet album est sur l'I-pod depuis un moment. Celle qui ouvre l'album également.
On aurait tort aussi de penser qu'il s'agit d'un parfait inconnu, du grand public, certainement, mais pas des plus grands singers/songwriters. Il a écrit des tubes pour certains, d'autres l'ont repris.
Voici ce qu'en disent certains :
-John Prine: “Mickey Newbury is probably the best songwriter ever.”
-Steve Earle: “Mickey is the godfather of all of us Texas writers… His voice blows my mind.”
-Sam Phillips: (of Sun Records) “One of the greatest songwriters and performers… a rare talent.”
-Willie Nelson: “He was one of the best writers we’ve ever had and one of the best friends I’ve ever had.”
-Jennifer Warnes: “Mickey is one of my all-time favorite songwriters. He wrote such beautiful songs.”
-Waylon Jennings: “If you don’t like to hear Mickey Newbury, you’re not American.”
-Tom Russell: “I’d tell him how much I loved his songs. He was the master of the middle tempo ballad... Killer songs and sentiments. Few of us would have the guts to write like that.”
-Johnny Cash: Mickey’s neighbor on Old Hickory Lake referred to Mickey as a “poet” and in 1971 on national TV, Johnny introduced him as “one of the finest writers in the country.”
-Joan Baez: “There was something very special about Mickey. He wrote endlessly... beautiful, heart-wrenching, sad scores of music, and I’m not sure where all that came from; he was very pleasant. I just considered him a friend.”
-Kris Kristofferson: “God, I learned more about songwriting from Mickey than I did any other single human being.To me he was a songbird. He comes out with amazing words and music... I’m sure that I never would have written."