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 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