Heaven Help The Child
by Mickey Newbury
Mickey Newbury bestography
Heaven Help The Child is ranked 3rd best out of 19 albums by Mickey Newbury on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Mickey Newbury is Looks Like Rain which is ranked number 7084 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 183.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 02/15/2025 16:34 | cicadelic | 12,714 | 73/100 | |
| 01/12/2025 17:29 |  dihansse | 6,309 | 75/100 | |
| 02/03/2023 17:58 | TonySayers61 | 24,456 | 64/100 | |
| 01/07/2023 05:43 |  CaptainPain | 3,357 | 61/100 | |
| 12/16/2022 14:26 | Rafion | 936 | 79/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.5/100, a mean average of 77.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.3.
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Heaven Help the Child is Mickey Newbury's fourth album, and the third album in his Rain/Frisco/Child trilogy. It can be heard on the 2011 "American Trilogy" compilation, which requires all three albums and various demos and outtakes.
Heaven Helps the Child is another lush offering. Newbury is more comfortable than ever producing records, and this one melds together beautifully as one single unit.
Three tracks serve transitions between the major tracks. Two of them are brilliant re- works from the Harlequin Melodies (Good Morning Dear and Sweet Memories, with nods to lyrics on the Looks Like Rain album) and the other is Song for Susan, Newbury's wife. These tracks seamlessly connect the highlight tracks of the album: the tender title track, the upbeat Sunshine, the "outlaw" Why You Been Gone So Long, Cortelia Clark and the reprise of San Francisco Mabel Joy, lifted and unaltered from the Looks Like Rain LP. Cortelia Clark is magnificent, and very reminiscent of Guy Clark's Desperados Waiting for a Train. Both songs have an unorthodox friendship between a young and old man and both mention old fashioned trains.
Heaven Help the Child is probably the most accessible album, with Frisco Mabel Joy, and a wonderful way to close the trilogy with a bang, or as Newbury preferred, with sound effecrs.
Essential.
All songs written by Mickey Newbury.
Digitally available in its entirety in the American Trilogy compilation and at Mickey Newbury's website.
Track Pick: Heaven Help the Child
Gems: Sunshine, Sweet Memories, Why You Been Gone So Long, Cortelia Clark
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