John Mark Heard (1951-August 1992) was a record producer, singer, and songwriter originally from Macon, Georgia.

Mark Heard freed Sixteen records around his life-time, & produced & performed sustaining numbers of more creative person likewise, like Sam Phillips, Pierce Pettis, Phil Keaggy, Vigilantes of Love, Peter Buck of R.E.M. (who co-produced VOL's album Killing Floor with Heard), John Austin and Michael Been of The Call. Heard produced section of Olivia Newton-John's The Hearsay, which likewise involved the handle of Heard's have "Big and Strong".

In July 4, 1992, Heard suffered a heart attack in stage when performing by having Pierce Pettis & Kate Miner, at a Cornerstone Festival, near Chicago, Illinois. Heard finished his placed & went to the hospital immediately afterward. Shortly when existence freed from either the hospital fortnight late, Heard experienced a cardiopulmonary arrest & died around August of 1992.

Inside 1994, many creative person close to record the benefit album known as Hard Hand of Love. Creative person lending their talents to the design involved Victoria Williams, Chagall Guevara, Buddy Miller, Julie Miller, Daniel Amos, The Choir, Rich Mullins, Bruce Cockburn, and a Vigilance man of Love. A task was late reissued as a Ii Video placed by owning extra tracks & retitled Orphans of God.

Around 2003, Cornerstone Press, a company which is owned per equivalent humans that organize the Cornerstone festival, published an authorised life story of Heard known as Hammers & Nails. a collection of antecedently unfreed demonstration was likewise released by Paste Music under the equivalent title.

At a Quaternary Annual Americana Music Association Honors & Awards, the Ryman Auditorium September 2005, Buddy Miller received the Album of the Year Award for his Universal United House of Prayer, and the opening cut of that album, Mark Heard's "Worry Too Much" (originally featured on Heard's Second Hand, Fingerprint Records 1991), won the Song of the Year Award.

Discography
Setting Yesterday Absolutely free! by owning Infinity+3, 1972 album Mark Heard, 1975 album In Turning To Dust, 1978 album (Reissue of "Mark Heard) Appalachian Melody, 1979 album Fingerprint, 1980 album Stop the Dominoes, 1981 album Victims of the Age, 1982 album Eye of the Storm, 1983 album Ashes and Light, 1984 album Mosaics, 1985 album Tribal Opera, 1987 album (as iDEoLA) Dry Bones Dance, 1990 album Second Hand, 1991 album Satellite Sky, 1992 album High Noon, 1993 "best of" album Strong Hand of Love: A Tribute to Mark Heard, Various Artists 1994 tribute album Orphans of God: A Tribute to Mark Heard, Various Artists 1996 tribute album Mystery Mind, 2000 album Hammers and Nails, 2003 collection of previously unreleased demos