Juice Newton & Silver Spur
# Juice Newton & Silver Spur

Juice Newton & Silver Spur is the eponymous debut studio album by country-rock trio Juice Newton & Silver Spur. The album contains Newton's first charting single, "Love Is a Word", and the original version of "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)", which was re-recorded in 1981 as a Newton solo piece and became a number-one hit.

## Track listing

All tracks are written by Otha Young, except where noted.

## Personnel

* Juice Newton – lead and background vocals; guitar
* Otha Young – lead and background vocals; guitar; synthesizer
* Tom Kealey – lead and background vocals; bass guitar, guitar
* Hal Blaine – drums; percussion
* Jeff Porcaro – drums
* Mike Melvoin – keyboards; string arrangements
* Rusty Young – dobro; pedal steel guitar
