First Things First (album)

All songs written by Bob Bennett, except where noted. • "Carpenter Gone Bad?" – 3:32 • "The Night Shift" – 6:34 • "Whistling In The Dark" – 2:31 • "The Best" – 3:45 • "You're Welcome Here" – 3:31 • "Forgive And Forget" – 2:48 • "(I Know That) My Redeemer Lives" (text: Samuel Medley; Tune: "Duke Street", John Hatton; adap. Bob Bennett) – 3:16 • "The Garden Song" – 3:46 • "I Belong To You" – 3:57 • "Healings" – 4:49 • "Spiritual Equation" (CD bonus track) – 2:18 Additional tracks on 2007 release "Spiritual Equation" (acoustic version, re-release CD) – m:ss Track by track commentaries (acoustic version, re-release CD) – m:ss ==Personnel==

• Bob Bennett – acoustic guitar, vocals, composer • Jim Fielder – bass guitar • Ron Tutt – drums • Alex MacDougall – percussion • Al Perkins – electric guitar, slide guitar • Bob Sanders – baritone horn • Nils Oliver – cello • Terry Winch – flugelhorn • Darrel Gardner – flugelhorn • Bill Alsup – French horn • Ron Loofbourrow – French horn • Val Johnson – trombone • Phil Ayling – woodwinds • John Phillips – woodwinds • Jonathan David Brown – producer, recording, mixing • James Gabriel – horn/woodwind arrangement on Track 7 ("My Redeemer Lives") ==Release history==

First Things First was originally released on LP and cassette in 1979. In the early 1990s it was released on CD; where that release contained an additional track, "Spiritual Equation". After being out of print for many years, in 2007 Bob Bennett arranged for a limited twenty-fifth anniversary edition; in addition to the original "bonus track", the 2007 release also contains an acoustic version of "Spiritual Equation" and newly recorded song by song commentaries. ==References==