Sails (album) explained

Sails
Type:	studio
Artist:	Chet Atkins
Border:	yes
Released:	June 2, 1987
Genre:	Country, jazz
Length:	45:03
Label:	Columbia
Producer:	Chet Atkins, David Hungate
Chronology:	Chet Atkins
Prev Title:	Street Dreams
Prev Year:	1986
Next Title:	C.G.P.
Next Year:	1988

Sails is the fifty-fourth studio album by Chet Atkins. It was released in 1987 by Columbia Records. Sails follows in the 1980s' vein of Chet Atkins' releases with a smooth jazz and new age atmosphere.

Reception

Allmusic music critic Richard S. Ginell wrote of the album; "this recording veers well across the line into new age wallowing of the most innocuous kind... this is not one of the better Atkins Columbia discs."

Track listing

1. "Sails" (Hall) – 4:20
2. "Why Worry" (Mark Knopfler) – 6:23
3. "Sometime, Someplace" (David Hungate, Randy McCormick) – 4:59
4. "Up in My Treehouse" (Walker) – 3:52
5. "Waltz for the Lonely" (Chet Atkins, Randy Goodrum) – 3:01
6. "Laffin' at Life" (Atkins, Daryyl Dybka, David Hungate) – 5:30
7. "On a Roll" (Atkins, Dybka, Paul Yandell) – 5:21
8. "My Song" (Keith Jarrett) – 5:08
9. "Love Letters" (Dybka) – 3:09
10. "Wobegon (The Way It Used to Be)" (Atkins) – 3:20

Personnel

• Chet Atkins - guitar, banjo
• Darryl Dybka - keyboards
• David Hungate - bass
• Earl Klugh - guitar
• Mark Knopfler - guitar
• Mike Lawler - keyboards
• Clayton Ivey - keyboards
• Randy McCormick - keyboards
• Billy Joe Walker, Jr. - guitar
• Terry McMillan - harmonica, percussion
• Paul Yandell - guitar
• Millard Green - guitar
• Larrie Londin - drums, percussion
• Mark Hammond - percussion, drum programming
• Bob Mater - drums
• Jim Horn - horns
• Mike Haynes - horns
• Baba Ram Dave - sitar
• Aristotle Onassid - bouzouki
• Dave Humphries - drum programming

Production notes

• Strings arranged by Bergen White
• Horns arranged by Bergen White and Darryl Dybka
• Mixed by Dave Palmer and John Mills
• Engineered by John Mills and Tom Singers
• Mastered by Denny Purcell
• Design by Bill Johnson and Jeff Morris