Mickey Newbury - Looks Like Rain (1969/2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Looks Like Rain is a 1969 concept album by singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury. After recording his debut album with RCA, Newbury was dissatisfied with the resulting album and left RCA to pursue a style closer to his tastes. Recorded at Cinderella Sound, as his next two albums would be, the result is widely considered his first real recording and represents a peak in the singer songwriter movement, especially for Nashville. The sound and style of the record would be highly influential during the Outlaw Movement during country music in the 1970s especially on albums by David Allan Coe and Waylon Jennings. Linking the tracks with delicate arrangements and liberal amount of atmosphere (almost all tracks feature rain sound effects), the record contains some of Newbury's most celebrated compositions including "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye", "33rd of August", "I Don't Think Much About Her No More", and "San Francisco Mabel Joy". AllMusic's review of the album concludes, "Looks Like Rain is so fine, so mysterious in its pace, dimension, quark strangeness and charm, it defies any attempt at strict categorization or criticism; a rare work of genius.

TRACKLIST

1. Mickey Newbury - Write a Song a Song / Angeline
2. Mickey Newbury - She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye
3. Mickey Newbury - I Don't Think Much About Her No More
4. Mickey Newbury - T. Total Tommy
5. Mickey Newbury - 33rd of August / When the Baby in My Lady Gets the Blues
6. Mickey Newbury - San Francisco Mable Joy
7. Mickey Newbury - Looks Like Baby's Gone



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