In 1988, Airborne Records planned a release in which Newbury's demos would be treated with synthesizers and other then-contemporary production effects.

These demos stemmed from sessions with the producer Larry Butler in Nashville in March 1983 and featured new age synthesizer sounds, which Newbury came to loathe.

The set includes the Newbury classics "An American Trilogy", "San Francisco Mabel Joy", "Lovers" and "Cortelia Clark".

[6] Airborne did release the recordings that Newbury rejected, also titled In a New Age, but had a Canadian distribution through CBS Music Products - catalogue No.

[7] In 1999, In a New Age was revised by Newbury's label Mountain Retreat, bass, percussion, guitar and sound effects were added.