FRISCO DEPOT - Mickey Newbury song  by Ramblin Wayn and JP Stingray / 2000th upload
Channel: Ramblin Wayn
Date: 2022-11-18

From the CD 'Desperados Blues' 2022 - RW vocals / JP vocal harmony, all instruments, mastering.
©Mickey Newbury, a critic once noted, might have been best known for being unknown. Few recognize Newbury or grasp the overarching, almost unfathomable influence he had on modern country music. He died in 2002 at age 62 of emphysema. He isn’t listed among notable alumni on the Jefferson Davis High Wikipedia page. Born in Houston in 1940, he wrote more than 500 songs, and his best were positively haunting. On “Frisco Depot,” he sings:

Frisco’s a mighty long way

If you can afford to fly

But it might as well be the moon

When you’re as broke as I

Here I sit with my head in my hands

Watchin’ the trains roll by

Lord, the helpin’-hand mission man warned me

The nights here got cold

“Music has never been anything but an escape from depression for me,” Newbury once said. “I write my sadness.” In his piece “Sunshine,” from his album Heaven, Help the Child, he sang, “Sunshine, you may find my window / But you won’t find me.”

interesting info : https://txmusic.com/mickey-newbury/