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Article: Revered singer/songwriter dies at 62.(Entertainment)(Prolific: Mickey Newbury's songs were recorded 522 times by artists worldwide.)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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Byline: FRED CRAFTS The Register-Guard
SPRINGFIELD - Mickey Newbury, one of America's most influential and prolific singer-songwriters, was hailed Monday by his longtime friend, singer-songwriter-actor Kris Kristofferson, as "one of the all-time great songwriters."
Newbury, 62, died in his sleep of emphysema at 2:30 a.m. Sunday at his home in east Springfield, his wife, Susan Pack Newbury, said. Newbury had been in fragile health and essentially bedridden for the past five years.
"To me, he was a songbird," Kristofferson said by phone Monday from Los Angeles. "He would do the simplest songs, with simple words, and put them together in such a ...