Carlisle's third album for Diadem Music, is a soulful, energetic reflection of that clarity, of the freedom he discovered digging around the old neighborhood. Picture it, if you will: There's young Bob, an average kid out in the yard of his southern California home, minding his own business, raking the leaves, when a car, very low to the ground, full of Latino musicians pulls up. "Hey kid, we heard you playing your guitar," one of the guys in the car yells. "You wanna be in a band?" "Sure, why not?," Bob answers. "OK man, but if you're gonna play with us," the guy in the low rider says, "you gotta listen to this stuff … and learn it...."

"Those guys anointed me with music that I had never before heard, like Sly and the Family Stone, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Tower of Power, James Brown...it was passionate stuff, and I fell in love with it," Bob says, remembering his “baptism” into soul music. "That is where I come from. Those are my roots. When everybody else in the late '60s and early '70s was playing their Beatles albums backwards to try to find out whether or not Paul was dead, I was listening to Redding and Pickett. Tower of Power…they were my Beatles." For Nothing But The Truth, Bob Carlisle tapped Regie Hamm, the multi-Dove award winning songwriter (Point of Grace, Jaci Velasquez) & producer (Clay Crosse) who resurrected Carlisle's blue collar soul and reminded him of how much fun the recording process can be. In the process, and at Hamm's urging, Carlisle rediscovered just how muscular his voice could be, and this album will no doubt remind listeners that within this silky balladeer beats the heart of a real soul man. Hamm brings a modern, yet earthy, energy to the project that delivers song after song with impeccable sonic fidelity and makes Carlisle's strength as a world-class singer never more apparent.