Sails (album)
Sails is the fifty-fourth studio album by Chet Atkins. It was released in 1987 by Columbia Records. Sails follows in the 1980s' vein of Chet Atkins' releases with a smooth jazz and new age atmosphere.
Reception
Allmusic music critic Richard S. Ginell wrote of the album; "this recording veers well across the line into new age wallowing of the most innocuous kind... this is not one of the better Atkins Columbia discs."Track listing
- "Sails" – 4:20
- "Why Worry" – 6:23
- "Sometime, Someplace" – 4:59
- "Up in My Treehouse" – 3:52
- "Waltz for the Lonely" – 3:01
- "Laffin' at Life" – 5:30
- "On a Roll" – 5:21
- "My Song" – 5:08
- "Love Letters" – 3:09
- "Wobegon " – 3:20
Personnel
- Chet Atkins - guitar, banjo
- Darryl Dybka - keyboards
- David Hungate - bass
- Earl Klugh - guitar
- Mark Knopfler - guitar
- Mike Lawler - keyboards
- Clayton Ivey - keyboards
- Randy McCormick - keyboards
- Billy Joe Walker, Jr. - guitar
- Terry McMillan - harmonica, percussion
- Paul Yandell - guitar
- Millard Green - guitar
- Larrie Londin - drums, percussion
- Mark Hammond - percussion, drum programming
- Bob Mater - drums
- Jim Horn - horns
- Mike Haynes - horns
- Baba Ram Dave - sitar
- Aristotle Onassid - bouzouki
- Dave Humphries - drum programming
Production notes
- Strings arranged by Bergen White
- Horns arranged by Bergen White and Darryl Dybka
- Mixed by Dave Palmer and John Mills
- Engineered by John Mills and Tom Singers
- Mastered by Denny Purcell
- Design by Bill Johnson and Jeff Morris