title: Juice Newton & Silver Spur
text: # 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
  