After All These Years (Remastered) Mickey Newbury

• 1 Medley The Sailor 05:47
• 2 Song Of Sorrow 02:59
• 3 Let's Say Goodbye One More Time 03:09
• 4 That Was The Way It Was Then 03:20
• 5 Country Boy Saturday Night 03:34
• 6 Truly Blue 03:51
• 7 Just As Long As That Someone Is You 03:29
• 8 Over The Mountain 03:37
• 9 Catcher In The Rye 02:54
• 10 I Still Love You (After All These Years) 03:35
• Total Runtime 36:15

Info zu After All These Years (Remastered)

"After All These Years" is the 1981 album by singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury, considered the concluding album of his remarkable 1970s run, it was the last album he would record for seven years. The album is very different in tone from its predecessor and revives Newbury’s talent for song suites with “The Sailor/Song Of Sorrow/Let’s Say Goodbye One More Time.” Other highlights on the album include “That Was The Way It Was Then” and “Over The Mountain.”

"After All These Years is completely different in content and production from its predecessor The Sailor. While "The Sailor" is a classic seafaring tragedy worthy of a film, "Song of Sorrow" and "Let's Say Goodbye One More Time" are both broken love songs, one in the aftermath of an affair and one at the moment of its breaking point. What they have to do with each other is only in Newbury's mind, but it works. Somehow from the vastness of the sea expressed in the suite's first song to the individual sitting alone in a room at night staring at a clock, we find the spectrum of human regret and grief. These songs -- most of them country songs although there is a strangely wonderful country-rock ballad called "Truly Blue" -- reveal for the first time Newbury's sense that he may have wasted his career. Truth be told, he may have been difficult to work with, but Nashville -- that great eater of talent -- never gave him a chance, considering him a songwriter rather than a recording artist. Evidence is on the waltz "That Was the Way It Was Then," a nostalgic lament for the 1950s. Never issued as a single, this track was later a hit for no less than three other artists and recorded by perhaps a dozen, yet none of them came close to the emotional depth of Newbury's version. Other standouts include "I Still Love You (After All These Years)," an astonishingly sincere non-corny homage to Newbury's parents. There is also the Dave Loggins-styled vocal on "Over the Mountain," co-written with Joe Henry, who was just beginning his career when this record was made, and wanted to be a country songwriter!" (Thom Jurek, AMG)

Mickey Newbury, guitar, vocals
Steve Brantley, vocals
Bruce Dees, vocals
Steve Gibson, guitar
Jon Goin, guitar
David Hungate, bass
Shane Keister, piano
Sheldon Kurland, strings
Dave Loggins, guitar, vocals
Mike Manna, piano
Terry McMillan, harmonica
Weldon Myrick, steel guitar
Bobby Ogdin, piano
Norbert Putnam, guitar
Cindy Reynolds, harp
Buddy Spicher, fiddle
James Stroud, drums
Jack Williams, bass

Digitally remastered

Mickey Newbury
was born Milton Sims Newbury Jr. in Houston Texas, May 19, 1940 to Maime and Milton Newbury. As a child, he was inseparable from younger brother, Jerry; a friendship that continued throughout his life. In high school, Mickey decided to write songs. As a teenager, he shut himself up in his room, writing poetry and learning to play guitar. He organized a doo-wop group called The Embers.

In 1959, Mickey joined the Air Force and was assigned to England for three years. When he returned to the United States, he pursued his dream of being a songwriter. He lived in a ’54 Pontiac and traveled around Texas, Tennessee, and Louisiana playing gigs and working on shrimp boats. Eventually he found himself in Nashville, and in 1964, signed a publishing contract with Acuff-Rose. He moved to Nashville in 1965 and about this time, his first child Joe was born. Shortly thereafter, Jimmy Elledge was first to cover a Newbury song, Just as Long as that Someone is You.

1966 was the year the music industry noticed Mickey Newbury. Don Gibson had a Top Ten Country hit with Newbury’s Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings, while Tom Jones scored a world hit with the same song. In 1968, Mickey saw huge success; three number one songs and one number five – across four different charts; Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) on the Pop/Rock chart by the First Edition, SweetMemories on Easy Listening by Andy Williams, Time is a Thief on the R&B chart by Solomon Burke, and Here Comes the Rain Baby on the Country chart by Eddy Arnold. This feat has not been repeated. That year, Mickey’s first album, Harlequin Melodies, was released by RCA.

Mickey met New Christy Minstrel member Susan Pack on a blind date in 1967 and would not see her again until 1969. Soon thereafter, they were married and living on a houseboat on Old Hickory Lake outside of Nashville. Over the next four years, Mickey released three albums that raised the bar on Music Row. Produced at Cinderella Studios outside of Nashville, and utilizing Nashville’s best musicians, Newbury’s trilogy of albums – Looks Like Rain, Frisco Mabel Joy and Heaven Help The Child are often referred to as masterpieces.

Following the birth of their first child, Chris, in 1973, the Newburys moved to Oregon, to Susan’s home town, just down the street from her parents, to raise their family. A daughter, Leah, followed in 1977. In 1980, Mickey was inducted into the Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame.

During the 80s, Mickey took a break from the music business to concentrate on his growing family and golf. Stephen joined the family in 1982 and Laura was born in 1985. In the early 90’s, he started writing, recording, and performing again, encouraged by his friends Bob Rosemurgy, Marty Hall, and Owsley Mannier. In 1995, Mickey’s health began to fail, but he continued to produce beautiful music. 1995 to 2002 were some of his most productive years, during which time he almost doubled his catalogue. He also directed his attention to other ventures, beginning work on children’s books based on his story-songs. On September 29, 2002 he succumbed to a long time lung disease and passed away in his sleep at home in Springfield, Oregon.

Mickey Newbury’s songs have been covered by hundreds upon hundreds of artists; over 1,000 covers have been documented. Mickey also recorded 25 albums over 35 years. Though he considered himself a songwriter first and singer second, his own albums are critically acclaimed and highly desired by a very passionate fan base the world over.

Many consider him to be the best of the best. Kris Kristofferson says, “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 Bobby McGee, Sunday Morning Coming Down… if I had never known Mickey. He was my hero and still is.”

Mickey’s love was the music, not the business. Among Mickey’s peers, he was always seen as a champion of the songwriter. Among his family members and associates, he was seen as a wonderful son, husband, father, and friend.

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