Mark Heard is the title of the first solo album by Mark Heard

Mark Heard

John Mark Heard was a record producer, folk-rock singer, and songwriter originally from Macon, Georgia, USA....

, originally released in 1975, and re-released as On Turning to Dust on both AB Records and Solid Rock Records

Solid Rock Records

Solid Rock Records is the record label of Larry Norman. It was set up in 1975 to distribute his own work, after he had been released by Capitol Records. Solid Rock had a distribution deal with Word Records until 1980....

 in 1978.

A limited edition CDR reissue of the original Mark Heard album was released to fans in 1998 through Fingerprint Records

Fingerprint Records

Fingerprint Records is an independent record label formed in 1990 by Mark Heard and Dan Russell.The label went on to release not only Heard's albums, but also albums by The Call, The Vigilantes of Love, Ramona Silver, bob., as well as two tribute albums to Heard after his death in 1992.Heard also...

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Track listing

All songs written by Mark Heard, except "Cabin in Gloryland" by O. A. Parris, writer /Cpl. Curtis Stewart. "Greensleeves

Greensleeves

"Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song and tune, a ground of the form called a romanesca.A broadside ballad by this name was registered at the London Stationer's Company in September 1580 as "A New Northern Dittye of the Lady Greene Sleeves". It then appears in the surviving A Handful of...

 interlude" is a 16th century English melody. "There is a Fountain" is an early American melody, words by William Cowper

William Cowper

William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry...

, 1771. "Passion Chorale" is by Hans Leo Hassler

Hans Leo Hassler

Hans Leo Hassler was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, elder brother of the less-famous Jakob Hassler...

, 1601; harmony by J. S. Bach, 1729, words by Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order.After the death of his mother, Bernard sought admission into the Cistercian order. Three years later, he was sent to found a new abbey at an isolated clearing in a glen known as the Val...

, 11th century. "Dinner at Grandma's" - by Mark Heard, Pat Terry, Jeff Vansant, Wayne King.

Side one

1. "On Turning to Dust"
2. "Dinner at Grandma's"
3. "Cabin in Gloryland"
4. "A Friend"
5. "Lullabye"

Side two

1. "Solid Rock"
2. "To Diane"
3. "Interlude (Traditional: Greensleeves & There Is A Fountain)"
4. "The Road"
5. "Interlude (Traditional: Passion Chorale)"
6. "All"

The band

• Mark Heard: guitars, vocals, piano, synthesizer and hambone
• Earl Grigsby: bass guitar
• Frank Godby: banjo
• John Heinrich: pedal steel guitar
• Chuck Long: sandblocks
• Jim Pennington: percussion
• Strings arranged by Dave Aldrich and performed by the Lamay String Quartet

Production notes

• Engineer: Cecil Jones.
• Photography and cover design by Mark and Janet Sue Heard.
• Recorded at Lemco Studios, Lexington, Kentucky
  Lexington, Kentucky
  Lexington is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 63rd largest in the US. Known as the "Thoroughbred City" and the "Horse Capital of the World", it is located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region...
  
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