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
 * 1) "Eye of the Storm" – 3:02
 * 2) "The Pain That Plagues Creation" – 3:59
 * 3) "Castaway" – 3:18
 * 4) "Well-worn Pages" – 2:45
 * 5) "He Will Listen To You" – 3:00

Side two

 * 1) "In the Gaze Of the Spotlight's Eye" – 3:59
 * 2) "Gimme Mine" – 3:32
 * 3) "These Plastic Halos" – 3:03
 * 4) "No One But You" – 2:29
 * 5) "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."