Peter Blackstock of No Depression Magazine on the West Coast produced a tribute to Newbury, Frisco Mabel Joy Revisited, available on the Appleseed label. “My primary motivation for putting together ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This cover image released by Scarlet Letter Records shows "The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury" by Gretchen ...

After a stint in the Air Force, Newbury bummed around while before hitting Nashville in the days when Kris Kristofferson and Tom T. Hall were still roaming the streets. It was the mid-60’s, and these ...

Songwriter Gretchen Peters, whose formidable catalog includes Martina McBride’s “Independence Day,” pays homage to one of her songwriting heroes with the forthcoming album The Night You Wrote That ...

Singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury, who wrote Kenny Rogers’ first hit and arranged “American Trilogy” as performed by Elvis Presley, died Sunday Sept. 29 of emphysema in Springfield, Ore. He was 62.

Gretchen Peters, “The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury” (Scarlet Letter Records) It took Gretchen Peters years to complete her album dedicated to Mickey Newbury’s rich catalog, a ...

It took Gretchen Peters years to complete her album dedicated to Mickey Newbury’s rich catalog, a careful and sensible pace. Newbury’s songs carry such depths of feeling — skewing mostly toward the ...

skewing mostly toward the dark side of life — that interpreting these 12 tunes in just a few sessions could have been as intense as it would have been unnecessary. Even the only truly bouncy piece ...