- Source: Eye of the Storm (Mark Heard album)
Eye of the Storm is an album by Mark Heard, released in 1983 on Home Sweet Home Records. According to the liner notes: "This album is a special, one-time release of acoustic guitar-oriented material. It is homemade. It was recorded on 24 track equipment one instrument at a time."
Track listing
All songs written by Mark Heard.
Side one
"Eye of the Storm" – 3:02
"The Pain That Plagues Creation" – 3:59
"Castaway" – 3:18
"Well-worn Pages" – 2:45
"He Will Listen To You" – 3:00
= Side two
="In the Gaze Of the Spotlight's Eye" – 3:59
"Gimme Mine" – 3:32
"These Plastic Halos" – 3:03
"No One But You" – 2:29
"Moonflower" – 2:26
The band
Mark Heard – Linn drums, bass guitar, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, lead and slide guitars, accordion, mandolin, harmonica, xylophone, percussion, voicehorns, voicestrings
Additional musicians
Tom Howard – emulator, Fender Rhodes, synthesizer
Phil Madeira – synthesizer, Fender Rhodes, eruma
Al Perkins – pedal steel guitar
Brandon Fields – saxophone
Harry Stinson – tambourine, shaker, toothbrush, bowling pins
Mark Heard
Dave de Coup-Crank – backing vocals
Production notes
Mark Heard – producer, arranger, engineer, mixing, cover design, photographer
Recorded July–September 1982 at the Gold Mine, Los Angeles, California
Janet Heard – assistant engineer, photographer
Tim Alderson – cover design, art director
Sally Jo Withrow – hand-lettering
Steve Hall – mastering at Future Disc
Wally Grant – mastering assistant
"Love to the Circle of Cynics, Pat and Pam Terry and the Strat Brothers, the Perefits, my friends at L'Abri and in Zurich and Stockholm, and my folks."