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 from Mountain Retreat, Newbury's own label in the mid-1990s, along with nine other Newbury albums from 1969 to 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 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
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