Satellite Sky

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Satellite Sky
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Studio album by
Released1992
Studio
Genre Folk, rock
Label Fingerprint
Producer Mark Heard
Mark Heard chronology
Second Hand
(1991)
Satellite Sky
(1992)
High Noon
(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. [2]

Contents

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


Production notes

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.