Matters of the Heart (Bob Bennett album)

Matters Of The Heart
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".^[1]

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

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

Release history

Matters Of The Heart was released by CBS/Priority in 1982. The album went out of print that summer because Priority Records ceased to exist. 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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