Songwriter Gretchen Peters, whose formidable catalog includes Martina McBride’s “Independence Day,” pays homage to one of her songwriting heroes with the forthcoming album The Night You Wrote That ...

This cover image released by Scarlet Letter Records shows "The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury" by Gretchen Peters. ( Scarlet Letter Records via AP) Gretchen Peters, “The Night ...

This article originally appeared in the January/February 1989 issue of American Songwriter. The only thing better than hearing a great Mickey Newbury song is hearing Mickey Newbury sing his great ...

Lonesome, Onry and Mean was sitting around having a few cold pops the other night when we put on The Best of Mickey Newbury. It wasn’t long before the room got quiet; nothing we were yacking about was ...

It took Gretchen Peters years to complete her album dedicated to Mickey Newbury’s rich catalog, a careful and sensible pace. Newbury’s songs carry such depths of feeling — skewing mostly toward the ...