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CEC 001RCD
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2011 release. With the limited edition 4 CD box set now sold out (and no longer licensed to Drag City in the US), Saint Cecilia Knows now release a less expensive version of the acclaimed 4 CD set, housed in a deluxe 5 panel fold out digipack with a 26 page book-let. An American Trilogy collects three seminal early albums by hugely-influential song-writer and performer Mickey Newbury: Looks Like Rain, Frisco Mabel Joy and Heaven Help The Child. All re-mastered from the original master tapes. The fourth CD includes a hoard of never-before-heard songs, alternate versions and demos from the same period. Imagine the artistry of Hank Williams, the voice of Roy Orbison and the intensity and intimacy of Townes Van Zandt all combined in one man. That's Mickey Newbury.
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MTNR 4003CD
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"Blue to This Day is the final album Mickey Newbury recorded prior to his death in 2002 and was released posthumously in 2003 on Mountain Retreat. The album is a moving testament to the unique talent of one of America's greatest singer-songwriters and an almost superhuman achievement given the state of his health at the time it was recorded. Mickey Newbury was plagued in later years by chronic lung disease and often had an oxygen tank on hand during the sessions."
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MTNR 8160CD
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"Originally released in 2000, Stories from the Silver Moon Cafe was the second album of original material to be issued on Mickey Newbury's Mountain Retreat label. In typical Newbury style, the album was inspired by and titled after a song that appeared on its predecessor, Lulled By the Moonlight, and featured much the same group of musicians, including Nashville legends Gene Chrisman, Roger Hawkins, Reggie Young, and Mike Elliot, as well as guitarist Jack Williams, who regularly accompanied Mickey on live dates."
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DC 475LP
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"'Frisco Mabel Joy was produced back at Cinderella Sound, newly upgraded from eight to sixteen tracks. Drawing on a larger cast of musicians (dubbed by Mickey 'The Nashphilharmonic'), the Newbury Universe expanded, adding clusters of steel and electric guitar overdubs to create expansive orchestral crescendos for his delicately constructed guitar-and-vocal compositions. The album's opening track was perhaps its most arresting: 'An American Trilogy,' combined 'Dixie,' 'Battle Hymn of the Republic' and 'All My Trials' into a searing medley that spoke to the political crisis in the country while standing simultaneously as a personal American ode. It became his most-covered composition, and his own version cracked the Top-40 singles chart."
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"In addition, the album Better Days collects demo material, alternate versions of several favorites, and a radio session from this period. Listeners will hear a crisp and clean version of Mickey's astonishing songwriting, singing and playing; refreshing to the ears after a swim through the powerfully concentrated sounds he created in the Cinderella garage."
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DC 476LP
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"Heaven Help the Child (1973): A new trilogy and some old favorites, deeper and wider and somehow bigger, in the third and final Cinderella Sound production. Sweet memories... even if you haven't had 'em yet, they'll make great ones in the future."
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DC 474LP
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"Looks Like Rain (1969) introduced audiences to the wide open spaces within one of their favorite song-writers (of other artists' songs). A combination of folk and country and soul in a psychotropic haze that put new shoes on the old horse's hooves."
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