Satellite Sky
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Satellite Sky | ||||
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Released | 1992 | |||
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Genre | Folk, rock | |||
Label | Fingerprint | |||
Producer | Mark Heard | |||
Mark Heard chronology | ||||
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AllMusic | [1] |
Satellite Sky is the final album by Mark Heard, released in 1992, on Heard's own Fingerprint Records, shortly before his death.[2]
The album, which was almost entirely written on a mandolin, prominently features Heard's own 1939 National Steel electric mandolin.
Track listing
[edit]All songs written by Mark Heard.
- "Tip of My Tongue" – 4:22
- "Satellite Sky" – 3:48
- "The Big Wheels Roll" – 4:02
- "Orphans of God" – 6:22
- "Another Day In Limbo" – 4:31
- "Language of Love" – 4:06
- "Freight Train to Nowhere" – 4:30
- "Long Way Down" – 4:42
- "A Broken Man" – 5:42
- "Love Is So Blind" – 3:15
- "Hammers and Nails" – 4:41
- "We Know Too Much" – 5:58
- "Lost on Purpose" – 4:20
- "Nothing But the Wind" – 3:32
- "Treasure of the Broken Land" – 6:22
Personnel
[edit]The band
- David Raven – drums
- Michael Been – bass guitar
- Fergus Jemison Marsh – stick
- Mark Heard – electric steel mandolin, electric guitars, acoustic guitars and mandolins, Hammond organ, accordion and harmonica.
- Buddy Miller – electric guitar
- Jack Sherman – electric guitar
- Mark Goldenberg – electric guitar
- David Miner – standup bass
- Jim Goodwin – horns
- David Baker – African percussion
- Doug Berch – hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer
- Sam Phillips – backing vocals
- Pam Dwinell-Miner – backing vocals
- Dan Russell – backing vocals
- Joel Russell – backing vocals
Production notes
- Mark Heard – producer for Fingerprint Productions, engineer, mixing at Fingerprint Recorders, design, artwork
- Dan Russell – co-producer
- Jim Scott – co-producer
- Chuck Long – production associate
- Jim Scott – engineer at Dodge City, Mama Jo's and Bedrock, Los Angeles
- Jeff Shannon- assistant engineer
- Conrad Kalil- assistant engineer
- Richard Benoit- assistant engineer
- Joel Russell- assistant engineer
- Chris Morris – assistant engineer (misspelled as Chris Morse in liner notes)
- Patrick House – photography
- Fingerprint – digital editing, graphics
- Design by Fran Larson – frame
References
[edit]- ^ Satellite Sky at AllMusic
- ^ Powell, Mark Allan (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers. p. 407–408. ISBN 978-1565636798.