Simple Songs

For the album by Jim O'Rourke, see Simple Songs (Jim O'Rourke album).

Simple Songs is the eighth album by Steve Bell. The album won the Juno Award for Best Gospel Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2001.^[2]

Simple Songs
Studio album by Steve Bell
Released	2000
Recorded	Signpost Studios, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, et al
Genre	Contemporary Christian music
Length	47:28
Label	Signpost Music
Producer	Steve Bell and Dave Zeglinski
Steve Bell chronology
Steve Bell Band Live in Concert (1999) Simple Songs (2000) Waiting for Aidan (2001)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
CCM Magazine	(favourable)^[1]

Simple Songs also won the award for Outstanding Christian Recording at the 2001 Prairie Music Awards. Steve Bell and Dave Zeglinski shared the Outstanding Producer award for the album.^[3]

Personnel

• Steve Bell - guitar, mandolin, vocals
• Sarah Bell - lead vocal on "Unto the Least of These"
• Jesse Bell - second guitar on "We Come"

Related

Song Book, Simple Songs (2000)

Track listing

1. "God Our Protector" - 3:10
2. "Home" - 3:47 (Joseph Brauen)
3. "High Above the Fray" - 4:13
4. "Fox Glove" - 2:24 (Bruce Cockburn)
5. "All the Diamonds" - 2:36 (Bruce Cockburn)
6. "Down the Way" - 2:14
7. "Done Made My Vow to the Lord" - 3:30 (anon.)
8. "What Kind of Love is This" - 2:36 (Bryn & Sally Hayworth)
9. "Unto The Least of These" - 4:35 (Mary-Kathryn)
10. "Fresh and Green" - 2:33
11. "Peace Prayer" - 3:23 (John Foley)
12. "Come Thou Long Expected Jesus / Be Thou My Vision / Great Is Thy Faithfulness" - 5:28 (Rowland Pritchard, anon., and William M. Runyan)
13. "We Come" - 3:09 (David Adam and Jim Croegaert)
14. "For the Journey" - 3:00

Words and music by Steve Bell except where noted.

References

1. CCM Magazine review. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
2. Juno Awards official site
3. WCMA official list 2012-03-24 at the Wayback Machine