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| Author: | Roisin |
| E-mail: | not available |
| Date: | 3/25/2007 6:12:54 PM |
| Subject: | Re: Mickey Newbury |
| Message: | Hello, Barbara. I knew Mick for 25 years. I met him like everybody else. Through his music. I heard his songs and they haunted me '76 and '77. What IS he that he can sound like that? I wondered. So I wrote him a letter. Of course I never expected to hear from him. Several months passed. One day at work the phone rang. "...Ro-sheeeen?..." he said in his voice. "Well... Mr. Newbury. It's about time!" I said. We were friends from then on. He's the sum of everything wonderful said about him. And so much more. Uncannily intuitive. A quirky genius full of mischief. An original brilliance....like a flash from a lighthouse window. Serious and funny. Playful. A devoted friend. Over the years he walked me across the hard bridges. "Take your sunglasses off, Ro," he said, and gave me his prescription glasses. We both wore corrective lenses. "You can see perfectly clear now, can't you?" he said. And I could. He'd call and ask, "...Are you wearing my glasses?" Every day, Mick. Every night. He would love your poetry. PS I hope somebody tells you about the crickets. And the golf with Willie. |
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Mickey Newbury by Barbara  at 3/24/2007 10:08:02 PM |
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| Re: Mickey Newbury by larry larry at 3/25/2007 11:33:58 AM |
| Re: Mickey Newbury by Bree Wilson Stone at 3/25/2007 1:37:19 PM |
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| Re: Mickey Newbury by BarbraG at 3/25/2007 7:35:14 PM |
| Re: Mickey Newbury by Joey L. at 3/25/2007 12:12:40 PM |
| Re: Mickey Newbury by Ginny G. at 3/25/2007 3:01:01 PM |
| Re: Mickey Newbury by larry larry at 3/25/2007 3:33:33 PM |
| Re: Mickey Newbury by Roy at 3/25/2007 6:06:31 PM |
| Re: Mickey Newbury by larry larry at 3/25/2007 6:15:28 PM |
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| Re: Mickey Newbury by BarbraG at 3/25/2007 6:44:28 PM |
| Re: Mickey Newbury by Jonmark at 3/25/2007 7:20:21 PM |
| Re: Mickey Newbury by BobC at 3/25/2007 7:31:15 PM |
| Re: Mickey Newbury by larry larry at 3/25/2007 7:43:33 PM |
| Re: Mickey Newbury by Laura Shayne at 3/26/2007 3:33:27 PM |
| Re: Mickey Newbury by Karen R at 3/26/2007 4:25:44 PM |
| Re: Mickey Newbury by BarbraG at 3/26/2007 4:29:48 PM |
| Re: Mickey Newbury by larry larry at 3/26/2007 4:42:04 PM |
| Re: Mickey Newbury by Ginny G. at 3/26/2007 5:01:57 PM |
| Re: Mickey Newbury by Karen R at 3/26/2007 6:26:17 PM |
| Re: Mickey Newbury by MrBeve at 3/27/2007 5:07:40 PM |
| Beve, are all the old boards gone now? by Ginny G. at 3/27/2007 6:29:22 PM |
| Re: Beve, are all the old boards gone now? by Jonmark at 3/28/2007 10:20:49 AM |
| Re: Mickey Newbury by Karen at 3/28/2007 4:34:13 AM |
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