Join the Mickey Newbury subreddit! If you’re a fan of Townes Van Zandt…

Mickey Newbury subreddit (friend of Townes who cowrote a song with Townes)

Townes went to Nashville because of Mickey. Townes was best man at Guy Clark’s wedding on Mickey’s houseboat. The song “The Queen” on the Newbury compilation Sings His Own was written by the two. Mickey was every bit an equal to Townes, one difference being that Mickey cared a lot more about production. Rain and train and radio style intros and using a guitar pedal on a pedal steel to simulate strings. Many of Newburys records have string arrangements and Charlie McCoy plays harp on Frisco Mabel Joy. Check out the 4 album compilation “an American trilogy” on streaming services for the best intro to Newburys work. Many of his albums are vinyl transcriptions that can be found in CD form from the artists website managed by his wife and his son. Every Newbury album is just about perfect. Every song is good.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mickeynewbury/s/Q4vZET3h4y

Townes has hundreds of thousands of monthly listeners on Spotify and Newbury has under 30000. Possible the most underrated musician of all time for the non boomer crowd, which is a damn shame.

For my favorite single song intro to his work I like “the futures not what it used to be”. My favorite 3 (if I had to pick 3) Newbury albums are After All These Years, Frisco Mabel Joy and A Long Road Home.