the extreme psychedelic stylings of kenny rogers and the first edition:



the writer was texas/nashville great mickey newbury.



and here is what my teen years looked like. seriously. when they didn't look like a mickey-newbury desert landscape of despair or whatever.


i think the line "what condition my condition is in" comes from deep in the blues lit about t.b. i gots the consumption, mama. but anyone got a reference to something older than kenny/mickey?