Lovers

Recorded at Chip Young's Young 'Un Sound in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 1975's Lovers was Mickey Newbury's final album for Elektra and perhaps his most versatile. It moves easily between country, blues, gospel and the lazy, rolling feel of New Orleans, sometimes within a single side, all held together by one of the great voices and pens in American music. Radio didn't know what to do with an artist who refused to stay in one lane. Heard today, Lovers sounds like exactly what it was: the work of a writer following his muse wherever it led, regardless of what Nashville expected. Long out of print, it has been transferred from the original master tapes and remastered by Clay Jones (Al Green, Elvis Costello, Modest Mouse). Produced by Chip Young.