Column: Mickey Newbury: Train songs, romantic idealism and An American Trilogy

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Column: Mickey Newbury: Train songs, romantic idealism and An American Trilogy

Ronda Rich

For The Times

Updated: Dec 1, 2021, 2:43 AM

Published: Nov 30, 2021, 8:20 PM

Perhaps you remember a line from Waylon Jennings’ career-making hit, “Luckenbach, Texas,” that tips the cowboy hat to “Hank Williams pain songs and Newbury train songs.”

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Column: FDR and the South helped each other out

Ronda Rich

For The Times

Published: Apr 8, 2025, 10:33 PM

Most admire Franklin D. Roosevelt, a crafty, pleasant, get-it-done type of President. He had been raised as an only child to his mother and father, though he had step-siblings. He was tremendously spoiled, but not in the way that turned him mean.

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