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{{Infobox album
| name       = Eye of the Storm
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Mark Heard]]
| cover      = Eye of the Storm (Mark Heard album) cover.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1983
| recorded   = 1982
| studio     = The Gold Mine, [[Los Angeles, California]]
| genre      = [[Folk music|Folk]], [[Rock music|rock]]
| length     =
| label      = [[Home Sweet Home Records|Home Sweet Home]]
| producer   = [[Mark Heard]]
| prev_title = [[Victims of the Age]]
| prev_year  = 1982
| next_title = [[Ashes and Light]]
| next_year  = 1984
}}
'''''Eye of the Storm''''' is an album by [[Mark Heard]], released in 1983 on [[Home Sweet Home Records]].<ref name="EofCCM">{{cite book |last=Powell |first=Mark Allan |author-link=Mark Allan Powell |title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music |publisher=Hendrickson Publishers |year=2002 |location=Peabody, Massachusetts |isbn=978-1565636798 |page=407}}</ref> 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'''
# "Eye of the Storm" – 3:02
# "The Pain That Plagues Creation" – 3:59
# "Castaway" – 3:18
# "Well-worn Pages" – 2:45
# "He Will Listen To You" – 3:00
===Side two===
# "In the Gaze Of the Spotlight's Eye" – 3:59
# "Gimme Mine" – 3:32
# "These Plastic Halos" – 3:03
# "No One But You" – 2:29
# "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 (musician)|Tom Howard]] – emulator, [[Fender Rhodes]], synthesizer
* [[Phil Madeira]] – synthesizer, Fender Rhodes, eruma
* [[Al Perkins]] – pedal steel guitar
* Brandon Fields – saxophone
* [[Harry Stinson (musician)|Harry Stinson]] – tambourine, shaker, toothbrush, bowling pins
* Mark Heard
* Dave de Coup-Crank – backing vocals
'''Production notes'''
* Mark Heard – producer, arranger, [[audio engineer|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."
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