Lovers (Mickey Newbury album)

Lovers
Studio album by Mickey Newbury
Released 1975
Recorded 1975; Youngun Sound Studios, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Genre Country
Label Elektra
Producer Chip Young
Mickey Newbury chronology

I Came to Hear the Music
(1974)
Lovers
(1975)
Rusty Tracks
(1977)
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Lovers is the 1975 album by singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury. The album is noted for the inclusion of the epic trilogy "Apples Dipped In Candy" and the title track. It was his final release on Elektra Records. Chet Atkins played guitar on "Apples Dipped in Candy" and Bergen White arranged the strings on the album.

Lovers 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.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Mickey Newbury

  1. "Apples Dipped in Candy"
  2. "Lovers"
  3. "Sail Away"
  4. "When Do We Stop Starting Over"
  5. "Lead On"
  6. "How's the Weather"
  7. "If You Ever Get to Houston (Look Me Down)"
  8. "You Always Got the Blues"
  9. "Let Me Sleep"
  10. "Good Night"

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