Perhaps you remember a line from Waylon Jennings’ career-making hit, “Luckenbach, Texas”, that tips the cowboy hat to “Hank Williams pain songs and Newbury train songs.”
Everyone knows Hank Williams but only admirers of songwriters and music aficionados know Mickey Newbury, a songwriter who had a similar intellectual depth to Kris Kristofferson (a Rhodes scholar) before anyo...
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