The Sailor (Mickey Newbury album)

The Sailor is the 1979 album by singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury. The album features a contemporary country production style.

The Sailor
Studio album by Mickey Newbury
Released	1979
Recorded	1979
Genre	Country
Length	26:45
Label	Elektra
Producer	Ronnie Gant
Mickey Newbury chronology
His Eye Is on the Sparrow (1978) The Sailor (1979) After All These Years (1981)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

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

1. "Blue Sky Shinin'" - 2:54
2. "Let's Have a Party" - 3:17
3. "There's a Part of Her Still Holding On Somehow" - 2:53
4. "A Weed is a Weed" - 2:21
5. "Let It Go" - 2:48
6. "Looking for the Sunshine" - 3:15
7. "Darlin' Take Care of Yourself" - 3:02
8. "Long Gone" - 2:43
9. "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

References

• The Sailor at AllMusic