Satellite Sky

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Satellite Sky
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Studio album by
Mark Heard
Released1992
Studio
Genre Folk, rock
Label Fingerprint
Producer Mark Heard
Mark Heard chronology
Second Hand
(1991)		Satellite Sky
(1992)		 High Noon
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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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

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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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