Wide Open (Sawyer Brown album)

Wide Open
Studio album by Sawyer Brown
Released	October 4, 1988
Genre	Country
Label	Capitol/Curb
Producer	Ron Chancey
Sawyer Brown chronology
Somewhere in the Night (1987) Wide Open (1988) The Boys Are Back (1989)

Wide Open is the fifth studio album by the 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.

Track listing

1. "My Baby's Gone" (Dennis Linde) – 3:28
2. "Old Pair of Shoes" (Mark Miller) – 2:45
3. "What Am I Going to Tell My Heart" (Gregg Hubbard, Bobby Randall) – 3:44
4. "Blue Denim Soul" (Miller) – 3:52
5. "It Wasn't His Child" (Skip Ewing) – 3:38
6. "Wide Open" (Beckie Foster, Bill LaBounty, Alan LeBoeuf) – 4:06
7. "Falling Apart at the Heart" (Hubbard, Miller) – 4:00
8. "Axe to Grind" (Miller) – 3:10
9. "Running Out of Reasons to Run" (Jim Rushing, J.D. Martin) – 3:38
10. "Field Hand" (Miller) – 4:37

Personnel

Sawyer Brown

• Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard – keyboards, background vocals
• Mark Miller – lead vocals
• Bobby Randall – electric guitar, background vocals
• Jim Scholten – bass guitar
• Joe "Curley" Smyth – drums, percussion

Additional musicians

• Mark Casstevens - acoustic guitar
• Sonny Garrish - steel guitar
• The Jordanaires – background vocals
• Jerry Kroon - drums, percussion
• Beverly Randall – background vocals
• Buddy Spicher - fiddle
• Jack Williams - bass guitar

Chart performance

External links

• Wide Open at Allmusic