Wide Open (Sawyer Brown album)

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Wide Open
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 4, 1988
StudioNew River Studios (Fort Lauderdale, Florida); The Music Mill, Eleven Eleven Studios and Woodland Studios (Nashville, Tennessee).
Genre Country
Length36:58
Label Capitol/Curb
Producer Ron Chancey
Sawyer Brown chronology
Somewhere in the Night
(1987)
Wide Open
(1988)
The Boys Are Back
(1989)
Singles from Wide Open
  1. "My Baby's Gone"
    Released: October 1, 1988

Wide Open is the fifth studio album by American country music band Sawyer Brown. It was released in June 1988 on Capitol Records, and features the singles "My Baby's Gone", "It Wasn't His Child", and "Old Pair of Shoes". The title track was co-written by Alan LeBoeuf, one-third of Baillie & the Boys.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."My Baby's Gone" Dennis Linde 3:28
2."Old Pair of Shoes"Mark Miller2:45
3."What Am I Going to Tell My Heart"Gregg Hubbard, Bobby Randall3:44
4."Blue Denim Soul"Miller3:52
5."It Wasn't His Child" Skip Ewing 3:38
6."Wide Open"Beckie Foster, Bill LaBounty, Alan LeBoeuf4:06
7."Falling Apart at the Heart"Hubbard, Miller4:00
8."Axe to Grind"Miller3:10
9."Running Out of Reasons to Run"Jim Rushing, J. D. Martin3:38
10."Field Hand"Miller4:37

Personnel

Sawyer Brown

Additional musicians

Production

Chart performance

Chart (1988)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums33



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