Satellite Sky

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Field	Value
name	Satellite Sky
type	studio
artist	Mark Heard
cover	SatelliteSky.jpg
released	1992
studio
genre	Folk, rock
label	Fingerprint
producer	Mark Heard
prev_title	Second Hand
prev_year	1991
next_title	High Noon
next_year	1993
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Satellite Sky is the final album by Mark Heard, released in 1992, on Heard's own Fingerprint Records, shortly before his death.

The album, which was almost entirely written on a mandolin, prominently features Heard's own 1939 National Steel electric mandolin.

Track listing

All songs written by Mark Heard.

1. "Tip of My Tongue" – 4:22
2. "Satellite Sky" – 3:48
3. "The Big Wheels Roll" – 4:02
4. "Orphans of God" – 6:22
5. "Another Day In Limbo" – 4:31
6. "Language of Love" – 4:06
7. "Freight Train to Nowhere" – 4:30
8. "Long Way Down" – 4:42
9. "A Broken Man" – 5:42
10. "Love Is So Blind" – 3:15
11. "Hammers and Nails" – 4:41
12. "We Know Too Much" – 5:58
13. "Lost on Purpose" – 4:20
14. "Nothing But the Wind" – 3:32
15. "Treasure of the Broken Land" – 6:22

Personnel

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

References

1. {{AllMusic
2. Powell, Mark Allan. (2002). "Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music". Hendrickson Publishers.

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