| The Sea and the Sky | ||||
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| Released | June 15, 2004 | |||
| Recorded | June 30, 2003 – January 30, 2004 | |||
| Genre | folk, world music singer-songwriter | |||
| Label | Waterbug Records | |||
| Producer | Jonathan Byrd Jerry Brown | |||
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| Washington Post | favorable link |
The Sea and the Sky is a 2004 collaborative album by North Carolina-based singer-songwriter Jonathan Byrd and Georgia-based world music duo, Dromedary (Andrew Reissiger & Rob McMaken).
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