''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
''The Mickey Newbury Collection'' collects the ten albums Mickey Newbury released on three labels between 1969 and 1981 on an eight disc set. The set was released and is available through Mountain Retreat, a label run by Newbury and later Newbur ...
'' 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
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Bob Moore
Bob Loyce Moore (November 30, 1932 – September 22, 2021) was an American session musician, orchestra leader, and double bassist who was a member of the Nashville A-Team during the 1950s and 1960s. He performed on over 17,000 documented record ...
– bass
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Buddy Spicher
Buddy Spicher (born July 28, 1938 in DuBois, Pennsylvania; pronounced “Spiker”) is an American country music fiddle player. He is a member of The Nashville A-Team of session musicians, and is Grammy-nominated. He was nominated as Instrumental ...
– 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
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Billy Sherrill
Billy Norris Sherrill (November 5, 1936 – August 4, 2015) was an American record producer, songwriter, and arranger best known for his association with country artists, notably Tammy Wynette and George Jones. Sherrill and business partner Gle ...
, Lee Hazen, Lynn Peterzell – engineers
*Stuart Kusher – art direction
*Gene Brownell – photography
References
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Mickey Newbury albums
1979 albums
Elektra Records albums