Wide Open (Sawyer Brown album) explained

Wide Open
Type:	studio
Artist:	Sawyer Brown
Cover:	sb_wide.jpg
Released:	October 4, 1988
Studio:	New River Studios (Fort Lauderdale, Florida); The Music Mill, Eleven Eleven Studios and Woodland Studios (Nashville, Tennessee).
Genre:	Country
Length:	36:58
Label:	Capitol/Curb
Producer:	Ron Chancey
Prev Title:	Somewhere in the Night
Prev Year:	1987
Next Title:	The Boys Are Back
Next Year:	1989

Wide Open is the fifth studio album by American country music band Sawyer Brown. It was released in June 1988 on Capitol Records, and features the singles "My Baby's Gone", "It Wasn't His Child", and "Old Pair of Shoes". The title track was co-written by Alan LeBoeuf, one-third of Baillie & the Boys.

Personnel

Sawyer Brown

• Mark Miller – lead vocals
• Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard – keyboards, backing vocals
• Bobby Randall – electric guitar, backing vocals
• Jim Scholten – bass
• Joe "Curley" Smyth – drums, percussion

Additional musicians

• David Briggs – keyboards
• Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
• Brent Rowan – guitars
• Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
• Jack Williams – bass
• Jerry Kroon – drums, percussion
• Terry McMillan – harmonica
• Buddy Spicher – fiddle
• The Jordanaires – backing vocals (1)
• Beckie Foster – backing vocals
• Beverly Randall – backing vocals

Production

• Ron Chancey – producer
• Blake Chancey – recording
• Joe Scaife – recording
• Billy Sherrill – recording
• Hoot Borden – traffic engineer
• John Abbott – assistant engineer
• Paul Goldberg – assistant engineer
• Rodney Good – assistant engineer
• Greg Parker – assistant engineer
• John Port – assistant engineer
• Denny Purcell – mastering at Georgetown Masters (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Virginia Team – art direction, design
• Jerry Joyner – design
• Mark Tucker – photography

External links

• [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r93995|pure_url=yes}} ''Wide Open''] at Allmusic