The Sailor (Mickey Newbury album)

The Sailor
Studio album by
Mickey Newbury
Released1979
Recorded1979
GenreCountry
Length26:45
LabelElektra
ProducerRonnie Gant
Mickey Newbury chronology
His Eye Is on the Sparrow
(1978) 		The Sailor
(1979) 		After All These Years
(1981)
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The Sailor is the 1979 album by singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury. The album features a contemporary country production style.

The Sailor was collected for CD issue on the eight-disc Mickey Newbury Collection from Mountain Retreat, Newbury's own label in the mid-1990s, along with nine other Newbury albums from 1969–1981.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Mickey Newbury

  1. "Blue Sky Shinin'" - 2:54
  2. "Let's Have a Party" - 3:17
  3. "There's a Part of Her Still Holding On Somehow" - 2:53
  4. "A Weed is a Weed" - 2:21
  5. "Let It Go" - 2:48
  6. "Looking for the Sunshine" - 3:15
  7. "Darlin' Take Care of Yourself" - 3:02
  8. "Long Gone" - 2:43
  9. "The Night You Wrote That Song" - 3:37

Personnel

  • Mickey Newbury
  • Barry "Byrd" Burton, Billy Sanford, Bobby Thompson, Don Roth, Rafe Van Hoy, Ray Edenton, John Goldthwaite – guitar
  • Bob Moore – bass
  • Buddy Spicher – fiddle
  • Bobby Thompson – banjo
  • Bobby Wood, John Moore – keyboards
  • Jerry Carrigan – drums
  • Mark Morris – percussion
  • Jay Patten – saxophone
  • Terry McMillan – harmonica
  • Dennis Wilson, Diane Tidwell, Don Gant, Duane West, Ginger Holladay, John Moore, Lea Jane Berinati, Lisa Silver, Sheri Kramer, Thomas Brannon – backing vocals
  • Carl Gorodetzky, Gary Vanosdale, George Binkley, John Catchings, Karl L. Polen, Jr., Lennie Haight, Marvin Chantry, Pamela Vanosdale, Roy Christensen, Samuel Terranova, Sheldon Kurland, Steven Smith, Virginia Christensen, Wilfred Lehmen – strings
  • Alan Moore – string arrangements
Technical
  • Billy Sherrill, Lee Hazen, Lynn Peterzell – engineers
  • Stuart Kusher – art direction
  • Gene Brownell – photography

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