One Sunday in Salem (Live)

Description

One Sunday in Salem (Live) is an acoustic live album featuring the American singer/songwriters Roby Duke (December 6, 1956 – December 26, 2007) and Bob Bennett, with pastor Steve Hopkins, independently released in June 2023. Recorded September 2007 at a music-centric Sunday morning at Calvary Chapel Salem, Oregon.

From Bob Bennett

In September 2007, Roby Duke and I were invited by our dear mutual friend longtime Pastor Steve Hopkins to be part of a music-centric Sunday morning at Calvary Chapel Salem (Oregon).

As a matter of course, the Service was recorded but certainly never intended for “release” beyond the church website. Single channel, mono, no mixing beyond what went into and came out of the sound board all at the same time. It was a great memento of a really good morning to be a part of. Of course, it took on a whole new and deeper significance when we lost Roby on 12/26/07. A lot of time passed, we still dearly miss the man. And, at a certain point, Steve said. “Is this release-able? Can we do this?” With the insanely invaluable assistance of James A. Abdo (Jesus Music aficionados will correctly place him in the groundbreaking band Aslan and, later, Broken Works), the source material was improved as much as it could be… and, voila, here we are. Mostly, Steve and I hope it will be a great blessing to those who know of Roby and his singular body of work… and, if fortunate enough, especially for those who knew the man himself. I don’t want to overstate this, but working on this release with Steve felt a little bit like having a some precious extra time with our still-dearly-missed friend and fellow-traveler. We hope you’ll like it and, afresh, thank our gracious Lord for the gift that was/is Roby Duke.

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Album tracklist:

01. Spoken: Intro / God of Wonders – 4:25
02. Consuming Fire – 3:46
03. He Knows My Name – 3:23
04. Spoken: Whose Guitar? – 0:16
05. Better Is One Day – 4:26
06. He Shall Reign – 3:09
07. Spoken: Prayer / Intros (Defiant) – 1:05
08. Defiant Lamb – 5:10
09. Spoken: History / Request (Carpenter) – 3:21
10. Carpenter Gone Bad? – 3:34
11. Spoken: Roby & Bob – 2:08
12. Be Thou My Vision – 6:17
13. Spoken: Hanky / Mutual Admiration – 1:50
14. One Embrace – 5:00
15. Spoken: Intro (Bright Ave) – 1:54
16. Here on Bright Avenue – 5:12
17. Spoken: The Struggle – 1:16
18. Spoken: Intro (Promised) – 3:37
19. Promised Land (Live) – 4:29
20. Spoken: Intro (Shall See) – 0:31
21. I Shall See God – 3:44
22. Spoken: Postscript About This Recording – 5:53