mickey newbury live

[@davidshepherdgrossman]

I got to open for Mickey Newbury at The Sweetwater in Mill Valley Calif. in 1989. He was simply the best solo performer I had ever seen and he was really nice to me. When he found out I was tuning my guitar to my harmonica he asked if I had an electric tuner and I said no. So without missing a beat he gives me his turner saying I could have it! We were friends till the time he died. Sure do miss him.

[@o-kay368]

Must of been an amazing experience .This dudes a legend.

[@harydogers8929]

What else did I miss in the sixties?

[@jackschriver9375]

Breaks my heart that he's gone. i love his music, and his voice.

[@kmr101]

You are so fortunate for that memory.

[@1greggideon]

I’m just NOW getting to see how great he was. Such an amazing talent!

[@walley2637]

keeping this video alive in 2024. everyone should know that he was a true artist. I still strum his song "willow tree" every time i pick up a guitar.

[@JenniferBtheGroove]

Same! I visit this page throughout the years. ❤

[@Bluelaidy]

No one like Mickey Newbury! This music gets me through life.

[@roaddock]

how i wish to sit in one of those tables and just listen to mickey sing the whole night and life through...

[@bighgnoz5189]

I was a lost soul in the '70s... at 17 I hadn't a clue as to what or where I could or should go in life. An older friend played his "After the Rains" album and I was immediately focused and calm. Mickey's song and voice have been a vital part of my life for over 40 years now... they are part of my soul. And I hope I can pass them on... thank you for this! btw it's incredible how deep and expressive his voice is so far from the mic...

[@michaelmckearn2313]

when i posted this video 4 and 1/2 years ago i never dreamed so many folks would watch and listen. when i was a depressed kid in the army mickey newbury came into my life. i never let him leave. i knew he spoke with a voice that was deeper and more pure than anything that i was aware of. he walks with dylan, leonard cohen and joni mitchell as transcendent artists in my life as a musician and fan. bless his beautiful soul. michael john mckearn

[@nightspore73]

Thank you so much for posting this performance, Michael, it serves as a wonderful tribute. It is the only full (video) concert I have found of Mickey, so the closest many of us will get to seeing him perform. I appreciate your lovely words as well, they certainly ring true.

[@davidshepherdgrossman]

Thanks so much for posting this. Mickey used to call me and play new songs over the phone for me up until his death. I posted here that I opened for him. It was at a club called The Sweetwater in Mill Valley. He stayed in touch with me every six months or so over the phone until he died. He influenced me as a person as well as my songwriting. This really brings me back. Thanks!

[@faithbrigham2321]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you. Just discovered this video on here. My love for Mickey Newbury began in the early 70's when I was battling my own demons. I was listening to Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell then. They were my religion in a sense. Felt a spiritual connection with the man like I did the others. His music touched my soul and helped shape my own writing. He will always have a special place in my heart. I consider him to be one of the finest songwriters this world has ever seen. His music was hauntingly beautiful and so very soulful.

[@mmonnink6434]

His lines from “Nights When I’m Sane” cut right through my soul. “I’m just one man, sometimes I wish I was three, I could take a forty-four pistol to me. Put one in my brain just for her memory. One more for my heart and I would be free”

[@richardnotman787]

I found him in 1973, a cassette tape of Heaven Help the Child. His music carried me through some difficult times. When I read that he had gone home I cried.

[@colmcasey1794]

I am a seventy year old music lover especially American singer songwriters like Guy and Townes but this performance is the most intense and emotionally and musically gig I have ever seen or heard.

[@SpencerStaunton]

this man touched the hearts and minds of millions

[@LindaNixon-ws4ge]

Never gets old❤😊

[@zonk2213]

If you are lucky enough to feel ... you won't do better than this performance.. thank you Mickey Newbury...for your songs and amazingly beautiful voice .

[@awesomeisasawesomedoesyo182]

Sublime! A true artist and soulful man. Thank God for Mickey Newbury.

[@debralong1481]

My dear sweet cousin, Mickey will never be forgotten by any of us! He loved to write, and was too shy to sing for years so hated it, although he did! We will always remember your beautiful soul!

[@CrazyGracie07]

Wow! I am speechless, just my God, how are there no monuments to this man?

[@federalist46]

There is only us, my friend.

[@B-Durry]

so true

[@paulb3567]

Kristofferson said it best. “Mickey writes with a bottle in one hand and a pistol in the other.”

[@awesomeisasawesomedoesyo182]

I am back again. Mickey was a truly sublime artist. Masterful.

[@PeterAByrne]

I see that performance was recorded in 1995. Mickey did indeed fulfil his prediction (made during the show) that he would live to the year 2000, dying in 2002. Damn it. Aged 62. Which would put him at about 55 when this recording was made. I think that even those of us who love Mickey unconditionally would agree that his voice at that time, after a long time smoking, was just past the zenith of its very best, but his soul remained unaffected, and I think his performance of "San Fancisco Mabel Joy" (@35'17'') in this video is one of the finest, enhanced even more by being live. An real artist, and a truly beautiful man. So sad. How I treasure the three signed vinyl albums of his I am blessed to have.

[@ZackariWatt]

0:00 I Just Dropped In 4:00 33rd of August 9:45 East Kentucky 12:45 Nights When I'm Sane 16:15 Heaven Help The Child 20:27 Genevieve 25:00 Easy Street 31:00 Your My Lady Now 35:00 San Francisco Mabel Joy 41:00 Earthquake 44:10 Saint Cecilia 46:45 Winter Winds Blow 51:40 What Will I Do 55:20 end

[@patrickambrose5372]

Thank you so much!

[@akhan5871]

mickey and townes vanzandt write some of the deepest, saddest soulful songs--love them - so glad to find them here. thanx - arthur.

[@steveperreira5850]

Two of the finest songwriters ever, Mickey and Townes.

[@kmaher1424]

Mickey was born in Houston. Later, he convinced two Houston folkies to move to Nashville: Townies van Zandt and Guy Clark...

[@sherrybell3902]

Kris Kristofferson said of Mickey Newbury, "he wrote lyrics as if he had a bottle of whiskey in one hand and a revolver in the other"

[@johnbesharian9965]

Sherry Bell Yes, he did. I first heard him was when I was in the southern California folk music scene in the mid/late '60's. I was impressed then and still am. I never played with him, but did with two singer/songwriters who have written and performed with that same special feeling; Tim Hardin and Michael De Jong. The three are/were separate and distinct in and of their own right musically, but each one has shared that same special place in their soul with the world that very few artist's ever know is there - even if they have it.

[@stephencochran6563]

That quote about a bottle of whiskey in one hand, and, a pistol in the other was actually said by MICKEY himself, not KRIS. K., the quote after "....whiskey in one hand, and a pistol in the other", ends," WELL I DON'T, I WRITE SADNESS". The interview was in 2002, just prior to his death. And may I add, truer words were never spoken. Until we meet again, God Bless You.

[@michaelgrossnickle9387]

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[@byronpate9061]

I was introduced to his music in 1972 when I was stationed in Panama. I was saddened when I heard of his passing from WBAP radio in Ft. Worth. He and Gordon Lightfoot could paint a picture.

[@wareagle69]

In the pantheon of the greatest songwriters during my lifetime, Leonard Cohen stands at the apex. Mickey Newbury stands next to him on the podium. Absolutely mesmerizing performance here. Leonard and Mickey share the penthouse in the Tower of Song..

[@patrickambrose5372]

Well said!

[@elizabethreinheimer6316]

Tears, tears and more sweet tears, 😢.....pulls on my heart strings every time...I'm so grateful for recordings on youtube like this one.......

[@damienlamb]

Perhaps the best songwriter/singer ever. And accompanied by none other than guitarist extraordinaire Jack Williams. Saw Mickey many times at the Silver Moon Café and the Florabama Lounge in Perdido Key FL. WOW! His son, Chris, is performing his songs as well as writing his own. If you have a chance to see Chris Newbury, don't miss it.

[@roygunter3244]

Thank you for identifying the guitarist, he did exactly what he should his tasteful playing added to every song and he didn't step on anything. You are right he is extraordinaire.

[@barbarabowlin5493]

A singer's and musician's singer! The best lyricist!! There will never be another like him!

[@JohnCrowquillerCullen]

Many performers may get close,....but few can reach your mind, your sorrow and your soul.....like Mickey. His songs were true and full of life and love. Love for the feelings you try to hide sometimes,...but God,...he finds them. RIP Mickey,..you left us GOLD.

[@mlwtennessee322]

My mother had his album Rusty Tracks and listened to it while I was just a kid. When I got older I started to appreciate it and now recognize it as perfection. His voice brings back so many memories. I can't help but cry when I hear him sing.

[@sparrowheels]

Thank you for posting this!

[@jennifer.lindsey578]

13:52 This is just amazing..I am moved beyond words...spoken from his heart, every song, and even though i did not know him, I feel like I do as I listen to these songs...mmmmm

[@Titan52berg]

Many, many MANY thanks for uploading and sharing this beautiful treasury of an American musical legend! I first heard Mickey way back in 1971-1972, when I purchased the 45 rpm single, "American Trilogy!" I became a life-long fan after I discovered the golden memory on the flip-side of that single... his haunting ballad of "San Francisco Mabel Joy." I will always consider him the man that gave me the music I grew up to...listening to late at night...creating memories that will last the rest of my life! Haunting and touching, his voice, his guitar, his whistle...his gifts of music... transport the listener to another time... a much easier time...when life was warm and sweet and laid out like a golden ribbon of memories that were made to last an eternity! Thank You, Mickey! You were an inspiration and you will remain one of my favorite artistic entertainers forever!

[@DPogs627]

What a treasure he was

[@denizkayra]

His songs are effortlessly beautiful. Thanks a bunch, Michael for sharing this record.

[@kaoseast1]

This is Mick at his finest Then he was gone haunting melancholy like a train whistle blow in hard Midnight cold as any grey rock federal prison thanks so much

[@DougCoppock]

This was indeed a pleasure - Mickey was one of a kind. In response to a request for a song list someone posted a while back - I had this so I thought I'd post it. Times are approximate: 0:00 I Just Dropped In4:00 33rd of August9:45 East Kentucky12:45 Nights When I'm Sane16:15 Heaven Help The Child20:27 Genevieve25:00 Easy Street 31:00 Your My Lady Now35:00 San Francisco Mabel Joy41:00 Earthquake 44:10 Saint Cecilia46:45 Winter Winds Blow51:40 What Will I Do55:20 end

[@jixxxxer17]

thanks for the list it really helps i just discovering Mickey Newburry today, wow he is so Good , Peace !

[@ttwillow9073]

Buffy Sainte Marie cover of his song "Why You Been Gone So Long" brought me here. Mickey's KEEPING me here, Wow!

[@jennifer.lindsey578]

These are so very clever, the lyrics...and my heart feels what he is singing...my, how I wish that I would have met him... :)

[@63RobWanders]

i just discovered him a few months ago and play him since then every day. what an amazing singer and composer he was!!!!

[@mberry55]

This is sheer, unmitigated genius. Thank you for sharing.

[@francesdemers7555]

He is the best ever

[@brianfinley6798]

Mickey was too viscerally expressive and bone-chilling for Nashville, and too understated, too "down home" for crossover success with career-making rock critics of the 1970s...he deserved so much more but the genius and the beauty of his music was too quiet and sly to ever reach the ears of consumers. I can't remember ever hearing him on the radio in the 1960s or 1970s. He is a giant...

[@awesomeisasawesomedoesyo182]

We saw him at Rockefeller’s in Houston in 91 or 92. Loved his work since 1970.

[@truthvsopinion]

People try to define soul. Here is a man dripping with it. Mesmerizing performance.

[@pielan7518]

Så bra. Och förmodligen så nära man kan komma utan droger, religion, makt- o rollspel etc. Tack Mickey (sitt med mig vid lägerelden). Och tack Michael Mckearn.

[@Titan52berg]

Refound this recently and just had to listen to the whole concert again! It's just like yesterday again.

[@daveroberts4086]

The Man who was just so Awesome 😎. RIP Mickey.

[@ახალიადამიანი]

0:00 I Just Dropped In 4:00 33rd of August 9:45 East Kentucky 12:45 Nights When I'm Sane 16:15 Heaven Help The Child 20:27 Genevieve 25:00 Easy Street 31:00 Your My Lady Now 35:00 San Francisco Mabel Joy 41:00 Earthquake 44:10 Saint Cecilia 46:45 Winter Winds Blow 51:40 What Will I Do 55:20 end 🤘

[@hippusdippus]

Thanks

[@rogerdalecoble]

Jack Williams backing him up. He is still out there pounding em out.

[@rob3101]

This show is available on the audio CD "Nights When I Am Sane".

[@imaplatt1]

Just too awesome for words - thanks for sharing! Just WOW !!!

[@barryalanwalker]

Thanks so much for posting this. It is so so good.

[@jakehapeta]

my cousin introduced me to mick via "heavan help the child " and "san fransico mabel joy back in 1976. I loved his music then - I wept over many a song and it stays the same. Please excuse bad spelling but sometimes its about the feeling

[@randyd.meyers1200]

I only meet him one time, but had a hell of time that night in mobile ala. with Lawrence regnolds and Leon Raines , uncle Wayne Hare , Doug Previtto

[@TD12KX]

Ah yes,.the author of the song that launched the career of Kenny Rogers and the first edition. I remember it well. What memories! RIP Mickey.

[@cdill5216]

I was introduced to Mickey Newbury’s music about 1977 when I lived in San Francisco. Somehow I found out he was playing in a club south of SF. I feel his music so deep and real. I can hear the pain in his voice when he sings. I have always wondered why he sang the saddest gut wrenching songs about a woman. I know he had children and a wife he loved so much. Just wonder where his pain came from. No technology back then, but I brought my tape recorder that night.

[@kerryg100]

Every now and then you come across something real special exceptional good Anita Carter brought me here thank god....its a beautiful day here in Dublin made better bye this Greetings from IRELAND 😉 salamat for the memories. ........

[@neilchristopher7520]

Only just discovered this artist. Maybe best songwriting I’ve ever heard.

[@songpoets-ramcey]

Wow, wow, WOW! Amazing. Stunning. Thank you, Mickey. We miss you.

[@gennyhaley7014]

January, late night, rainy and cold, broke from Christmas, nothing left, that's when you listen to this. If Tom Waites hadn't invented his growling drunk persona to hold the weight of the raw emotions in his songs, this is what they would sound like. Newbury is almost too much to take in--do I really want to vibrate like a sympathetic string with the all too human feelings being pulled from the depth of the writer's heart and wrung out to the last drop through his vocal chords? Guess so.

[@davidshepherdgrossman]

I think you are right on as far as it being a painful and wonderful thing Mickey had going. Tom Waits is more off the cuff. Mickey is pure sorrow. But the soulfulness is so intense it tricks you into listening. His voice is animated. What a range. I can only take for couple hours at a time then I need about a 6 month break. I always go back to him though. Each time more impressed.

[@oboyleuk1]

A supreme storyteller. What a gift!

[@denizkayra]

This must be some kind of heaven.

[@Annie-xf4je]

RIP Mickey, you will always be in our hearts.

[@darrenburke8246]

Two thumbs down??? Shame on you!!! How can you not be impressed buy this guys lyrics, voice and words!!!

[@weaselstuff]

Saw him south of SF, at a little club somewhere in San Mateo?. Then again in SF a t a party thrown for him by , I think, Jeff Trager, who was his local promotion man for Elektra , and a huge fan. Everybody in the record business at the time, 1969, was there, a couple of hundred people. He was almost completely unknown outside of industry folk. There is a great 6-7 cd compilation of his work, available through his family. One of the greats!

[@christopherneary2315]

Would have loved to have seen Mickley live what a great talent

[@ronpatrick19]

Mickey Newberry once said that he was a songwriter/singer, not a singer/songwriter. But he was both.... we all know it. I don't think that he held one over the other, he prob'ly just considered himself a songwriter first showing respect for the song..... I get that. Sure do miss him....

[@tedwright5165]

Sanslöst bra! Och hur många svenskar känner till denne fullkomligt lysande artist...? Nu tyvärr avliden sedan en tid men det går ju att botanisera och hitta en hel del av mannens musik tack och lov!

[@goodjah8946]

En till av Svea rikes söner kan tilläggas som ett nyfunnet fan!

[@oldroadie]

RIP Mickey. The Gulf sands miss you.

[@Az3x3V]

Splendid theme's reminiscent of good times spent!!!

[@kiwibridge]

Absolutely incredibly beautiful

[@markrush5013]

damn! how amazing is this?!....thank you!

[@ecor1988]

prachtige DVD van een geweldige singer/songwriter.

[@amarforest]

Wow...absolutely

[@hiswheeler]

He was wonderful!

[@tbarrett4732]

Songs are funny lol you know. I’m listening to Waylon Willie and the boys and they mentioned a singer or someone that i had never heard of. First time I listened that close. I’m a curious person 😂suits me fine this time.

[@eyencyst]

thx for posting

[@fredscott7340]

Sooooooo underated

[@jaycewraley4724]

If this dont move you in any way you have no soul

[@RamblinWayn]

great musician

[@edwardspearing5148]

Beautiful soul of a man also crowell Clark van zandt Texas cooking

[@TR-yi8up]

Edward Spearing Goodman, Prine

[@calwolfe3094]

I first heard Mickey pitching songs at the Acuff/Rose golf tournament in Nashville in 1980. He was in a hotel room that had 50 people there listing to him. Took some pictures of him sitting on the bed singing with his guitar. Email me and I will share. calwolfe at the G

[@michaelmather2449]

+Cal Wolfe Thx [e-mail]

[@mickmontgomery754]

+Cal Wolfe -thank you [e-mail]

[@golftrainer]

Cal Wolfe I would love to see those pictures....

[@hogsandsooners]

Peerless, in my mind. How does one man possess all he had? He let it all out.

[@chriswarner6764]

underrated

[@imaplatt1]

Looked for the earthquake song forever!

[@interestingest]

.Ray SiljaI listened to it all, Thx..

[@DateTwoRelate]

You think Springsteen listened to Mickey Newbury growing up? How could HE NOT? At 4:00.

[@Ray-ii7xl]

Mickey himself said it wasn’t true he wrote with bottle in one hand & a gun in the other.

[@ecor1988]

DVD en CD's kunt U rechtstreeks bestellen bij zijn zoon Cris. zie de web-site Mickey Newbury. (is zeer moeilijk te verkrijgen in Nederland)

[@jixxxxer17]

anyone know the name of the song at around 28:00 ? Thanks

[@chingachgook34]

I think it's "That's the Way It Goes"

[@jixxxxer17]

Thanks it's a great song, thanks @@chingachgook34

[@imaplatt1]

Do you know when this was recorded?

[@BlackbeanCatVC15]

Wholly shit!

[@robertchouinard5005]

I take a knee

[@rtcastleberry]

It's a damned shame they decided to record him in an echo chamber. Weirdly, he sounds a lot like the muffled, Nebraska-era Springsteen. But for a guy who lived by words, it's an obnoxious filter.