Satellite Sky Explained

Satellite Sky
Type:	studio
Artist:	Mark Heard
Cover:	SatelliteSky.jpg
Released:	1992
Genre:	Folk, rock
Label:	Fingerprint
Producer:	Mark Heard
Prev Title:	Second Hand
Prev Year:	1991
Next Title:	High Noon
Next Year:	1993

Satellite Sky is the final album by Mark Heard, released in 1992, on Heard's own Fingerprint Records, shortly before his death.^[1]

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Powell, Mark Allan . Mark Allan Powell . Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music . Hendrickson Publishers . 2002 . Peabody, Massachusetts . 978-1565636798 . 407–408.