The Sailor (Mickey Newbury album) explained
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
- "Blue Sky Shinin'" - 2:54
- "Let's Have a Party" - 3:17
- "There's a Part of Her Still Holding On Somehow" - 2:53
- "A Weed is a Weed" - 2:21
- "Let It Go" - 2:48
- "Looking for the Sunshine" - 3:15
- "Darlin' Take Care of Yourself" - 3:02
- "Long Gone" - 2:43
- "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
