something for that holiday depression?

How Many Times (Must The Piper Be Paid For His Song) - Mickey Newbury

i've thought of newbury on & off over the years. he died back in 2002, sept 29th. there wasn't much fanfare when that happened. i remember philip "discovered" him. this was an excellent discovery too. we'd sit in the semi-dark of philip's cave & listen to this so very sad music. since we were young & invulnerable, we had to act through these deeply complex emotions. we certainly hadn't experienced anything like them in our lives yet. newbury's voice is really a thing of beauty & the album("frisco mabel joy") was filled w/such a sadness. they say that teenaged girls are sad but we certainly ate it up too. mickey however was singing it from the heart, singing it from the pain. his voice here at the beginning, w/o words, just soaring up, then down...that's the sound we'd all like to make, we all feel we COULD make, when things have crashed so spectacularly to the ground.

i don't have any of newbury's albums anymore. michael has everything he ever thought of recording but my albums have been lost to time. i picked up my guitar the other day &, w/o thinking, played this song from start to finish. i remembered all the words too. i hadn't heard the song in over 20 years. i guess some things get in you & never go away.