Mickey Newbury's songs came to the attention of Wesley Rose of Acuff-Rose Music in Nashville, who summoned him to Nashville in 1964. Mickey quickly became one of the premiere songwriters in Nashville, and in the 1960's had  number 1 hits in Pop, Country, Rhythm & Blues and Easy Listening charts.

After numerous releases on major labels, in 1996 Mickey formed his own music production and distribution company, Mountain Retreat.

Mickey Newbury passed away at his home in Springfield, Oregon on September 29, 2002 after a lengthy illness. He was recognized as one of America's finest songwriter-performers, and his songs have been recorded by hundreds of other artists, including Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, Joan Baez, Kenny Rogers, and Waylon Jennings.

The Mickey Newbury Collection is an exquisitely packaged box set consists of 10 albums from 1969 on 8 CDs, with CD - sized sleeves of the original album cover art. The albums included are:

• Disc 1 - Looks Like Rain
• Disc 2 - Frisco Mabel Joy
• Disc 3 - Heaven Help The Child
• Disc 4 - Live At Montezuma Hall
• Disc 5 - I Came To Hear The Music
• Disc 6 - Lovers
• Disc 7 - Rusty Tracks/His Eye Is On The Sparrow
• Disc 8 - The Sailor/After All These Years

Full Track Listing:

• Write a Song a Song/Angeline
• She Even Woke Me up to Say Goodbye
• I Don't Think Much About Her No More
• 'T' Total Tommy
• Thirty-Third of August
• When the Baby in My Lady Gets the Blues
• San Francisco Mabel Joy
• Looks Like Baby's Gone
• American Trilogy
• How Many Times (Must the Piper Be Paid for His Song)
• Interlude
• Future's Not What It Used to Be
• Mobile Blue
• Frisco Depot
• You're Not My Same Sweet Baby
• Interlude
• Remember the Good
• Swiss Cottage Place
• How I Love Them Old Songs
• Heaven Help the Child
• Good Morning Dear
• Sunshine
• Sweet Memories
• Why You Been Gone So Long
• Cortelia Clark
• Song for Susan
• San Francisco Mabel Joy
• How I Love Them Old Songs
• Heaven Help the Child
• Earthquake
• Cortelia Clark
• I Came to Hear the Music
• San Francisco Mabel Joy
• Bugger Red Blues (The Truck Song)
• How Many Times (Must the Piper Be Paid for His Songs)
• American Trilogy
• Please Send Me Someone to Love
• She Even Woke Me up to Say Goodbye
• I Came to Hear the Music
• Breeze Lullaby
• You Only Live Once (In a While)
• Yesterday's Gone
• If You See Her
• Dizzy Lizzy
• If I Could Be
• Organized Noise
• Love, Look at Us Now
• Baby's Not Home
• 1 X 1 Ain't 2
• Apples Dipped in Candy
• Lovers
• Sail Away
• When Do We Stop Starting Over
• Lead On
• How's the Weather
• If You Ever Get to Houston (Look Me Down)
• You've Always Got the Blues
• Let Me Sleep
• Good Night
• Leavin' Kentucky
• Makes Me Wonder If I Ever Said Goodbye
• Bless Us All
• Hand Me Another of Those
• People Are Talking
• Tell Him Boys
• Shenandoah
• That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)
• Danny Boy's Come Home
• In the Pines
• Juble Lee's Revival
• Westphalia Texas Waltz
• Wish I Was
• His Eye Is on the Sparrow
• Dragon and the Mouse
• Gone to Alabama
• It Don't Matter Anymore
• I Don't Know What They Wanted Me to Say
• Saint Cecilia
• Juble Lee's Revival Shout
• Blue Sky Shinin'
• Let's Have a Party
• There's a Part of He Still Holding on Somehow
• Weed Is a Weed
• Let It Go
• Looking for the Sunshine
• Darlin' Take Care of Yourself
• Long Gone
• Night You Wrote That Song
• Sailor
• Song of Sorrow
• Let's Say Goodbye One More Time
• That Was the Way It Was Then
• Country Boy Saturday Night
• Truly Blue
• Just as Long as That Someone Is You
• Over the Mountain
• Catchers in the Rye
• I Still Love You (After All These Years)