Satellite Sky

Satellite Sky
Studio album by Mark Heard
Released 1992
Recorded Fingerprint Recorders
Dodge City Studios
Mama Jo's
Bedrock Studios
Los Angeles, California
Genre Folk/rock
Label Fingerprint
Producer Mark Heard
Mark Heard chronology

Second Hand
(1991)		 Satellite Sky
(1992)		 High Noon
(1993)
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Satellite Sky is the title of the final album by Mark Heard, released in 1992, on Heard's own Fingerprint Records, shortly before his death.

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

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