Satellite Sky

Satellite Sky is the final album by Mark Heard, released in 1992, on Heard's own Fingerprint Records, shortly before his death.

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