Tracks1.1 Looks Like Rain 1.2 Write a Song a Song/Angeline (7:12) 1.3 She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye (3:59) 1.4 I Don't Think Much About Her No More (5:47) 1.5 T. Total Tommy (4:04) 1.6 33rd of August / When the Baby in My Lady Gets the Blues (9:06) 1.7 San Francisco Mabel Joy (6:48) 1.8 Looks Like Baby's Gone (4:29) 2.1 Frisco Mabel Joy 2.2 An American Trilogy (4:54) 2.3 How Many Times (Must the Piper Be Paid for His Song) (5:54) 2.4 Interlude (1:32) 2.5 The Future's Not What It Used to Be (4:30) 2.6 Mobile Blue (3:10) 2.7 Frisco Depot (3:44) 2.8 You're Not My Same Sweet Baby (3:51) 2.9 Interlude (1:06) 2.10 Remember the Good (3:00) 2.11 Swiss Cottage Place (3:12) 2.12 How I Love Them Old Songs (3:50) 3.1 Heaven Help the Child 3.2 Heaven Help the Child (5:16) 3.3 Good Morning Dear (5:17) 3.4 Sunshine (4:25) 3.5 Sweet Memories (3:30) 3.6 Why You Been Gone So Long (3:29) 3.7 Cortelia Clark (5:08) 3.8 Song for Susan (4:31) 3.9 San Francisco Mabel Joy (5:32) 4.1 Better Days 4.2 If You Want Me to I'll Go (3:36) 4.3 Sunshine (3:01) 4.4 Sad Satin Rhyme (3:14) 4.5 Why You Been Gone So Long (3:18) 4.6 I Don't Wanna Rock (1:55) 4.7 Let Me Stay Awhile (2:25) 4.8 Flower Man (4:09) 4.9 Good Morning Dear (2:10) 4.10 On Top of Old Smokey (3:26) 4.11 Interlude: How Many Times (Must the Piper Be Paid for His Song) (2:03) 4.12 Better Days (3:20) 4.13 How I Love Them Old Songs (2:08) 4.14 I Don't Wanna Rock (2:27) 4.15 I Don't Want Me No Big City Woman (2:06) 4.16 You're Not My Same Sweet Baby (4:50)
Notes2011 release. With the limited edition 4 CD box set now sold out (and no longer licensed to Drag City in the US), Saint Cecilia Knows now release a less expensive version of the acclaimed 4 CD set, housed in a deluxe 5 panel fold out digipack with a 26 page book-let. An American Trilogy collects three seminal early albums by hugely-influential song-writer and performer Mickey Newbury: Looks Like Rain, Frisco Mabel Joy and Heaven Help The Child. All re-mastered from the original master tapes. The fourth CD includes a hoard of never-before-heard songs, alternate versions and demos from the same period. Imagine the artistry of Hank Williams, the voice of Roy Orbison and the intensity and intimacy of Townes Van Zandt all combined in one man. That's Mickey Newbury.