Songs from Bright Avenue

Infobox Album
Name = Songs From Bright Avenue
Type = studio
Artist = Bob Bennett


Released = 1991
Recorded =
Genre = CCM
Length =
Label = Urgent Records
Producer = Jonathan David Brown
Reviews =
Last album = ""
(1989)
This album = "Songs From Bright Avenue"
(1991)
Next album = "Small Graces"
(1997)

"Songs From Bright Avenue" is Bob Bennett's fifth release. The album was made in the shadow of Bob's divorce from his first wife; to quote Bob himself, "I was 'foolish' enough to make a record about my divorce. The normal [procedure] in Christian music is that if you go through a divorce, you simply go underground for a year and show up with a new spouse, and no one's the wiser. When Songs From Bright Avenue came out, I realized that this was not going to be the 'Hey-let's-buy-a-big-bag-of-Fritos-and-invite-the-gang-over' type of record. I've had people tell me that it was just too painful to listen to. I say, 'I understand that, but go back and listen and see if you can find some hope there because I certainly tried [to convey that] '." [A 1996 CCM Magazine interview by Laura Harris ( [http://web.archive.org/web/19980209160911/http://www.ccmcom.com/ccmmag/96nov/1196bennett.html retrieved 2007-07-10 from The Wayback Machine] ).]

Track listing

All songs written by Bob Bennett, except where noted.

#"Here On Bright Avenue" – 4:48
#"No Such Thing As Divorce" – 4:14
#"Angels Around Your Bed" – 3:15
#"The Doing Of The Thing" – 5:14
#"Our Codependent Love" – 5:21
#"My Secret Heart" – 5:24
#"Save Me" – 4:09
#"Unto The Least Of These" – 4:39
#"Hope Like A Stranger" – 3:56
#"The Place I Am Bound" – 4:26
#"Singing For My Life" – 3:32
#"I'm Still Alive Tonight" – 2:23

Personnel

*Bob Bennett – acoustic guitar, vocals, composer
*Breg Jennings (2, 10) – acoustic guitar
*Dan Foster (10) – tin whistle
*Danny O'Lannerghty (5) – electric bass, acoustic bass, rhythm charts
*David Wilcox (3, 9 ,11) – background vocals
*Gene Elders 92,10) – fiddle
*Gordon Garrison – sound engineer
*Greg Jennings (1, 4) – electric guitar
*Jimmy Mattingly (8) – fiddle, mandolin
*Jonathan David Brown – producer, recording, mixing
*Kelly Willard (7, 11) – background vocals
*Larry Seyer (1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 11) – electric guitar
*Lisa Glasgow (7, 11) – background vocals
*Mark Hammond (5, 7, 9) – drums, percussion
*Marvin Steinberg (6) – drums, percussion
*Michael Card (8) – background vocals
*Pally O'Malley (5) – electric and acoustic bass
*Paul Glasse (3, 10) – mandolin
*Paul Leim (1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 11) – drums and percussion
*Phil Keaggy (4) – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals

And for the only keyboard on this record: "Phil Madeira, ladies and gentlemen, on the ivories! Phil..."

Release History

"Songs From Bright Avenue" was released by Urgent Records in 1991. It was re-released by Signpost Music in 2003.

References