We continued this week doing some catching up with a few more releases from late 2007 that we didn't quite get around to before year's end, including Grayskul's "Bloody Radio," Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's "Ask Forgiveness," and Oakley Hall's "I'll Follow You."
Mark Wheat and Danny Sigelman were my guests.
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I always get confused with the Mickey Newbury thing, though. For some reason, I always want to say it's an Anthony Newley song. Not quite the same thing, eh?
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy covers Danzig's "Am I A Demon"...too huge success...I might add! As I said in the episode, "Bonnie 'Prince' Billy can tear a page outta the phonebook and make it sound good"
Yo Mac, Mickey Newbury was pretty much of a songwriters songwriter...
John Prine: "Mickey Newbury is probably the best songwriter ever."
Willie Nelson: "He was one of the best writers we've ever had and one of the best friends I've ever had."
Rodney Crowell: When I first arrived in Nashville, "I was really transformed by Mickey, and for many years I emulated Mickey Newbury."
Waylon Jennings: "If you don't like to hear Mickey Newbury, you're not American."
Johnny Cash: (Newbury's neighbor on Old Hickory Lake) Refered to Mickey as a "poet," and in 1971 on national TV, Johnny introduced him as "one of the finest writers in the country."
Kris Kristofferson: "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."
Don't know if this Anthony Newley has cred like that?!