Wide Open (Sawyer Brown album)

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.

Wide Open
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 4, 1988
StudioNew River Studios (Fort Lauderdale, Florida); The Music Mill, Eleven Eleven Studios and Woodland Studios (Nashville, Tennessee).
GenreCountry
Length36:58
LabelCapitol/Curb
ProducerRon Chancey
Sawyer Brown chronology
Somewhere in the Night
(1987)
Wide Open
(1988)
The Boys Are Back
(1989)
Singles from Wide Open
  1. "My Baby's Gone"
    Released: October 1, 1988

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."My Baby's Gone"Dennis Linde3:28
2."Old Pair of Shoes"Mark Miller2:45
3."What Am I Going to Tell My Heart"Gregg Hubbard, Bobby Randall3:44
4."Blue Denim Soul"Miller3:52
5."It Wasn't His Child"Skip Ewing3:38
6."Wide Open"Beckie Foster, Bill LaBounty, Alan LeBoeuf4:06
7."Falling Apart at the Heart"Hubbard, Miller4:00
8."Axe to Grind"Miller3:10
9."Running Out of Reasons to Run"Jim Rushing, J. D. Martin3:38
10."Field Hand"Miller4:37

Personnel

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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

Production

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  • 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

Chart performance

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Chart (1988) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 33
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