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Genre: Gospel
Release Date: 06/20/2006

After a long stint as the leader of Southern gospel trio the Bishops, singer/songwriter Kenny Bishop has taken solo flight with a self-titled debut record with a Nashville sound pop-country base for his devotional lyrics. Bishop has an immediately appealing voice, a light and almost boyish tenor that delivers his guileless lyrics with a minimum of effort. (Fans of 1970s country-rock will note an immediate vocal resemblance to Firefall's Rick Roberts.) Musically, the album is pure country, with every midtempo song sweetened with bits of fiddle, strings, and/or pedal steel behind the small-combo backing. The lack of musical diversity is a small problem, causing the album to sag by the two-thirds mark as pleasant but undeniably samey songs like "Out of Mercy's Way" and "I Need You More Today" blend into one another, but the album rights itself again near the end with the swinging honky tonk groove of "I Can't Believe What Grace Has Done for Me."

~Stewart Mason, All Music Guide

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Gary Prim - Keyboards
Gary Prim - Session Leader
Terry Franklin - Vocals (Background)
Pete Greene - Engineer
Pete Greene - Mixing
Leslie Johnson - Art Direction
Kimberly Lancaster - Photography
Paul Leim - Percussion
Gordon Mote - Organ (Hammond)
Scott Sanders - Guitar (Steel)
Mike Sykes - Vocals (Background)
Wanda Vick - Dobro
Wanda Vick - Fiddle
Wanda Vick - Mandolin
Biff Watson - Guitar (Acoustic)
Biff Watson - Banjo
Chris Carrol - Engineer
Gayle Mayes - Vocals (Background)
Reggie Smith - Vocals (Background)
Woody Wright - Vocals (Background)
Woody Wright - Producer
Woody Wright - Engineer
James Easter - Vocals (Background)
James Easter - Engineer
Norman Holland - A&R
Angela Primm - Vocals (Background)
Jeff Gudenrath - Mastering
Becky Isaacs Bowman - Vocals (Background)
Sonya Isaacs - Vocals (Background)
Sheri Easter - Vocals (Background)
David Ponder - Vocals (Background)
David Ponder - Engineer
Rhonda Thompson - Promotions Director
Justin Kropf - Engineer
Dottie Leonard Miller - Executive Producer
Charlotte Ritchie - Vocals (Background)
Ladye Love Smith - Vocals (Background)
Mark Hill - Bass
Stephen Hill - Vocals (Background)
Kenny Bishop - Liner Notes
Jeff King - Guitar (Electric)

Here's a Blessing
    Candi Staton / CD / 2000
This Is Your Life
    Out of Eden / CD / 2002
Simple Truths
    The Holmes Brothers / CD / 2004
The Color of Music
    John P. Kee / CD / 2004
Born Again
    The Kingsmen Quartet / CD / 2004
Dream
    BeBe Winans / CD / 2005

Release Date: 06/20/2006
Genre: gspl