Track listing
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 releasePersonnel
* Bob Bennett – acoustic guitar, Vocals, composer * Jim Fielder – acoustic bass * Ron Tutt – drums * Alex MacDougall – percussion * 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