Satellite Sky
Studio album by
Released1992
Studio
GenreFolk, rock
LabelFingerprint
ProducerMark Heard
Mark Heard chronology
Second Hand
(1991)
Satellite Sky
(1992)
High Noon
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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

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

  1. Satellite Sky at AllMusic
  2. Powell, Mark Allan (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers. p. 407–408. ISBN 978-1565636798.
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