Songs From Bright Avenue is Bob Bennett

Bob Bennett (singer-songwriter)

Bob Bennett is an American Christian singer, guitarist and songwriter from Downey, California. Bennett is known for his distinctive baritone voice, Christian lyrics and folk-inspired guitar playing.-Career:...

'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]'."

Track listing

All songs written by Bob Bennett

Bob Bennett (singer-songwriter)

Bob Bennett is an American Christian singer, guitarist and songwriter from Downey, California. Bennett is known for his distinctive baritone voice, Christian lyrics and folk-inspired guitar playing.-Career:...

, except where noted.

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

Personnel

• Bob Bennett
  Bob Bennett (singer-songwriter)
  Bob Bennett is an American Christian singer, guitarist and songwriter from Downey, California. Bennett is known for his distinctive baritone voice, Christian lyrics and folk-inspired guitar playing.-Career:...
  
   – 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
  Michael Card
  Michael Card is an American Christian singer-songwriter, musician, author, and radio host from Franklin, Tennessee. He is best known for his contributions in Contemporary Christian Music, which couple folk-style melodies and instrumentation with lyrics that stem from intensive study of the Bible...
  
   (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
  Phil Keaggy
  Phil Keaggy is an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist who has released more than 50 albums and contributed to many more recordings in both the contemporary Christian music and mainstream markets...
  
   (4) – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals

And for the only keyboard on this record: "Phil Madeira

Phil Madeira

Phil Madeira is an American songwriter, producer, musician and singer from Nashville, Tennessee. He was raised in Barrington, Rhode Island and attended Taylor University, which he graduated from in 1975....

, 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.