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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
Mickey
Newbury - Triad Studios 1991
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Mickey
Newbury
Triad Studios
1991 [no label, 1CD]
Live
at the Triad Studios, Eugene, OR, June 3, 1991.
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, Sweet Memories 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, Newbury's first album, Harlequin Melodies, was released
by RCA.
In 1991, Newbury
recorded some demo tracks at Triad Studios in Eugene, Oregon.
After "14 years of
shelf-ageing," a fan decided to share the tracks (excellent soundboard)
on the internet. (Unfortunately we couldn't identify the seeder.)
But this is what
the seeder wrote:
"I'm pretty excited
to put this out there. I think it's essential in this talented songwriter's
legacy. In the short time I knew him, I got the impression that he'd understand
this being unearthed.
"In late spring of
1991, shortly after we arrived in town, it was set up that Mickey Newbury
would come in for a day of recording as a gift to the previous owner of
the studio we had just bought. I'll admit I was somewhat green to who
he was, what he'd done in his career. We even recorded Just Dropped In
(To See What Condition My Condition Was In) that day and I had no idea
it was his song until a few years later. It was featured prominently in
the film, The Big Lebowski, some years back.
"I hung out with
him quite a bit that day during the eight or nine-hour session, setting
up the recording and the mics, during his smoking breaks, coffee binges,
etc. He was a crusty old guy at the time and had been haggard by the years
of living the musician's life. But we got along fairly well and he seemed
very interested in what I thought of his music. It was typical insecure-but-talented
BS with him, as I told him I was honestly blown away by the soul and emotion
in these sessions and he shrugged it off as 'crap'. He even does mostly
covers, the times he does his own songs they're crunched into two different
drawn-out medleys.
"The setup was pure
for me, I love the single-take off-the-cuff type recordings, it has a
vibe and spontaneity that is so lacking in most modern music. Using his
two Neumann U47's (one on his guitar, one for the vocals) and a U87 on
the cello (some hippy-looking dude who was the first chair cello player
for the Eugene Symphony, Dale Bradley), we laid down all the tracks straight.
Dale didn't even know the songs, he just followed along in key, and quite
the pro he was.
"The 'gift' was essentially
complete when the previous owner got what he wanted, the straight tracks
with a quick mix to DAT. But it wasn't really done. So we added some production
tracks to some of the songs, then spent three solid days in mixing the
bad boy, and passed it along to Mickey. The response was rather tepid,
and the last time I saw or even spoke to him he came by the studio a couple
of months later to get his microphones. He made some remark about how
his vocals sucked that day. Sure there're mishaps and a few humorous cracks,
but I like the unrehearsed and raw atmosphere of it.
"Making DAT back-ups
in those days was a luxury, so I archived it to Hi-Fi VHS, a practice
I had been doing for nearly five years at the time. The head spins at
a high-rate of speed, so quality was excellent and kept it in the analog
realm. Unfortunately, we now know that the shelf life isn't good for those
things, and the occasional video "fart" looms over the ever ageing tape.
"I came across the
tape while cleaning out my studio a couple of months ago and decided the
time was now or never for this thing. Of course, within a day of getting
these tracks into my DAW, the VHS Hi-Fi machine I'd been using since 1986
for these archives just died outright. The tape is even stuck in the machine!
It'll require some major surgery to get it out safely and changing machines
is not even an option for tapes like this. So what I got is what I got.
"And here it is,
a few years after his death, some totally hidden sessions from the man
who wrote a whole bunch of the old country and R&B hits. His songs
were recorded by the likes of Ray Charles, BB King, Bobby Blue Bland,
Jerry Lee Lewis, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson and Joan Baez, among others.
He is perhaps best known for his composition, American Trilogy, recorded
by dozens of artists, including a very popular Elvis Presley version.
"Look it up (www.mickeynewbury.com),
you'll be surprised how prolific he was as a songwriter, but his soulful
delivery as a musician and singer was quite an experience too...
"It's not the cleanest
of sources, but it's what I got. I think there's a DAT of this out there
somewhere, and if it still exists I know who has it, but I'm not going
there, no way in hell."
Meanwhile, here's
a note on Triad Studios from Susie of mickeynewbury.com:
"Triad was a new
studio in town, and he [Mickey] was really trying to help Allan and Peter
get started. Most of that studio wound up in our barn for 10 years, after
Allan moved back East. Mickey conned Vic Clay into coming out and 'taking
the board back home'. Poor Vic flew all the way out to Springfield, and
after we got the cobwebs and mouse droppings off the top, Vic wisely decided
that there was nothing worth shipping home. Two years ago, two friends
of Steve's who have nothing better to do, took the board out of the barn,
spent months and months cleaning off the contacts, and now have it up
and running in a garage in Springfield. Maybe a hit will come out of it
yet."
On September 29,
2002 Mickey Newbury succumbed to a long-time lung disease and passed away
in his sleep at home in Springfield, Oregon. He was 62.
Click
on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality,
stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain,
this recording has never been officially released.
These tracks are no longer available for download. Kindly email us at
mybigo@bigozine.com if you want
to download these tracks at a later time.
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| Track
01 |
Genevieve
- Lovers - How Many Times (M Newbury) (19.0MB) |
| Track
02 |
Pledging
My Love (D Robey/F Washington) (5.2MB) |
| Track
03 |
They
Will Never Take Her Love (L Payne) (5.4MB) |
| Track
04 |
Unchained
Melody (H Zarat) (5.5MB) |
| Track
05 |
Ivory
Tower (J Fulton/L Steele) (5.4MB) |
| Track
06 |
You
Win Again (H Williams) (4.6MB) |
| Track
07 |
Summertime
(G Gershwin) (7.8MB) |
| Track
08 |
Just
Dropped In - Willow Tree (M Newbury) (10.2MB) |
Lineup:
Mickey Newbury - guitar,
vocals
Dale Bradley
- cello
Click here
to order Mickey Newbury albums.
For more... email mybigo@bigozine.com
with the message, "Put me on your mailing list."
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26, 2007
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