MICKEY NEWBURY, "LOOKS LIKE RAIN" (RARE)(SEALED)(MINT)
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The item you are bidding on is a 1969 (VERY RARE), (SEALED), (MINT) copy of :
MICKEY NEWBURY, "LOOKS LIKE RAIN"
on MERCURY records
#SR-61236
This ALBUM is VERY RARE and is in MINT condition as it is STILL TIGHTLY SEALED IN THE ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAP. It looks like it was packaged yesterday! It is a RARE COPY in this condition.
The COVER is also in VG++ condition (shows a small pin hole in upper right corner otherwise MINT- grade. Very little corner wear; 2 corners minor only). NO price tags or stamps on cover.
A little personal info. about "the seller"..."If I could take five albums with me when I die, this album, by Mickey Newbury, "Looks Like Rain", would be one of them (that's why the small reserve - I apologize, I just can't give it away - those of you who have come to know this LP will understand)."
Newbury's sound holds more in common with that of Tim Buckley's or Simon and Garfunkel's. But even here, comparisons fail miserably. Newbury created an album haunting, so elegant, full of melancholy and mystery, it sounds out of time, out of space. It is a sound that seemingly comes from inside the mind of the listener than from the speakers on the stereo. When the sound of thunder and rain appears at the beginning of "She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye," we are hardly surprised. Newbury's stories are movies; all the settings are in place before the story begins. He can move back and forth in time while changing images to suit the evolving narrative. "San Francisco Mable Joy," is a long tale of dispossession, dislocation, failure, and death, but so poetically beautiful, it can't help but be heard then echoed, deep in the heart of the listener. The thunderstorm is in full flood now, running through each track, from speaker to speaker in one long line, sheets of rain pouring down around the place the singer emotes from. Suddenly a gunshot cuts just loudly enough to jar us from the reverie. At six minutes and forty-three seconds, there is plenty of room for the song's drama to create a tension so mournful it becomes nearly unbearable. And even though we know what's coming as the story unfolds, the song's ending is totally devastating.
"Looks Like Rain" is so fine, so mysterious in its pace, dimension, and charm, it defies any attempt at criticism; it's a rare work of genius.
THE CUTS:
- WRITE A SONG A SONG / ANGELINE
- SHE EVEN WOKE ME UP TO SAY GOODBYE
- I DON'T THINK MUCH ABOUT HER NO MORE
- T. TOTAL TOMMY
- 33rd OF AUGUST / WHEN THE BABY IN MY LADY GETS THE BLUES
- SAN FRANCISCO MABLE JOY
- LOOKS LIKE BABY'S GONE
This very rare (collector's item) AND SPECIAL SEALED ALBUM would go great with your collection...DON'T LET THIS GEM GO AWAY!!
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