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I Came to Hear the Music

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Released
  
1974

Producer
  
Chip Young

Artist
  
Mickey Newbury

Label
  
Elektra Records

Length
  
38:12

I Came to Hear the Music (1974)
  
Lovers (1975)

Release date
  
1974

Genre
  
Country music

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Recorded
  
1974; Youngun Sound Studios, Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Similar
  
Mickey Newbury Collection, Live at Montezuma Hall, Looks Like Rain, Heaven Help the Child, After All These Years

Mickey newbury i came to hear the music


I Came to Hear the Music is the 1974 album by singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury, his fourth release on Elektra Records. The cover photography was by Norman Seeff.

Contents

I Came to Hear the Music was collected for CD issue on the eight-disc Mickey Newbury Collection from Mountain Retreat, Newbury's own label in the mid-1990s, along with nine other Newbury albums from 1969–1981.

Mickey newbury i came to hear the music


Track listing

All tracks composed by Mickey Newbury

  1. "I Came To Hear The Music" - 4:15
  2. "Breeze Lullaby" - 1:51
  3. "You Only Live Once (In a While)" - 3:28
  4. "Yesterday's Gone" - 3:30
  5. "If You See Her" - 4:14
  6. "Dizzy Lizzy" - 3:54
  7. "If I Could Be" - 2:52
  8. "Organized Noise" - 2:22
  9. "Love, Look At Us Now" - 2:58
  10. "Baby's Not Home" - 3:47
  11. "1 X 1 Ain't 2" - 5:01

Cover versions

  • "Love Look At Us Now" was recorded by Edward Woodward, Johnny Rodriguez, and Joe Simon.
  • "1x1 Ain't 2" was covered by psychedelic garage band Neal Ford and the Fanatics.
  • Johnny Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd released "Yesterday's Gone".
  • "If You See Her" appeared on albums by Waylon Jennings and Johnny Rodriguez.
  • Don Gibson performed "Baby's Not Home."
  • Glenn Barber scored a minor country hit with "You Only Live Once (In a While)."
  • Will Oldham cut a version of "I Came to Hear the Music."
  • Songs

    1I Came to Hear the Music4:16
    2Breeze Lullaby1:51
    3You Only Live Once in a While3:28

    References

    I Came to Hear the Music Wikipedia