Peace Be Still (Vanessa Bell Armstrong album)

Peace Be Still
Studio album by Vanessa Bell Armstrong
Released	1983
Recorded	RNJ Studios, Detroit, MI
Genre	Gospel music
Label	Onyx International/The Benson Company
Producer	Thomas Whitfield Walter Hawkins
Vanessa Bell Armstrong chronology
Peace Be Still (1983) Chosen (1984)

Peace Be Still is the debut studio album from gospel singer Vanessa Bell Armstrong, released in 1983 on Onyx International/The Benson Company. ^[1] The album peaked at No. 2 on the US Billboard Top Spiritual LPs chart. ^[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]

AllMusic's Bill Carpenter, in a 4.5/5 star review, noted "Traditional hymns that are given "Holiness" treatment." ^[3]

Peace Be Still was also Grammy nominated in the category of Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female. ^[4]

Track listing

Side A:

1. Peace Be Still (6:28)
2. Labor In Vain (2:59)
3. I Have Surrendered (3:14)
4. He's Real (5:00)

Side B:

1. He Looked Beyond My Faults
2. Any Way You Bless Me
3. God So Loved The World
4. God, My God

CD re-release

Not to be confused with this studio album, there is also a re-released compilation CD entitled Peace Be Still which includes tracks from this album as well as Bell Armstrong's two subsequent releases for Muscle Shoals Sound Records, 1984's Chosen , and 1986's Following Jesus .

1. Peace Be Still
2. Walk With Me
3. He's My Everything
4. Teach Me, Oh Lord
5. I'm Going Through
6. He's Real
7. Any Way You Bless Me
8. Waiting
9. What He's Done For Me

References

1. Vanessa Bell Armstrong (1983). Peace Be Still (album). Onyx International/The Benson Company.
2. "Top Spiritual LPs" (PDF). Billboard. October 8, 1983Z. p. 63. Retrieved September 15, 2025.
3. Carpenter, Bill. "Vanessa Bell Armstrong - Peace Be Still". AllMusic . Retrieved September 15, 2025.
4. "Vanessa Bell Armstrong". The Recording Academy . Retrieved September 16, 2025.