Matters of the Heart (Bob Bennett album)

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Matters Of The Heart
Matters Of The Heart cover
Studio album by Bob Bennett
Released 1982
Genre CCM
Label CBS/Priority
Producer Jonathan David Brown
Bob Bennett chronology
First Things First
(1979)		 Matters Of The Heart
(1982)		 Non-Fiction
(1985)

Matters Of The Heart is Bob Bennett's second release. In January 1983, CCM Magazine named this album "Album Of The Year - 1982!" CCM Magazine later named Matter of the Heart as one of the "Top 20 Christian Albums Of All Time."

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Bob Bennett, except where noted.

  1. "Matters Of The Heart" – 3:30
  2. "Falling Stars" – 3:05
  3. "Mountain Cathedral" – 4:54
  4. "1951" (Jim Fowler/Michael Aguilar/Bob Bennett) – 3:06
  5. "A Song About Baseball" – 3:20
  6. "Madness Dancing" – 3:16
  7. "Together All Alone" – 2:47
  8. "Beggar" – 3:55
  9. "Come And See" (Bob Bennett/Michael Aguilar) – 2:51
  10. "Heart Of The Matter" – 6:11

[edit] Personnel

  • Bob Bennett – acoustic guitar, vocals, composer
  • Steve Swinford – acoustic guitar (track 3)
  • Hadley Hockensmith – electric guitar
  • Don Gerber – banjo
  • Mark Davis – hammer dulcimer
  • John Patitucci – acoustic and electric bass
  • Keith Edwards – drums
  • John Ferraro – drums
  • Alex Macdougall – percussion
  • Roby Duke – background vocals
  • Kelly Willard – background vocals
  • Jonathan David Brown – producer, recording, mixing
  • Smitty Price – keyboards, charts, track arrangements

[edit] Release History

Matters Of The Heart was released by CBS/Priority in 1982. The album went out of print that summer because Priority Records went under. In 1985, Star Song re-released the album. By 1987 the album became out of print again. Finally in 1989 the cassette for the album was re-released by Urgent Records. In 1990, Urgent Records released the CD; soon after it went out of print again, until its May, 2007 release on iTunes.

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