The "Saved" album was recorded in the middle of a tour. It was different from any other record I'd ever recorded.

And Jerry Wexler, who was the producer of this record, said it was very much like the old Ray Charles days where the band would just be on tour, and they would pull into a town, do a recording session, and go back on the road, and continue on touring. And that's exactly what we did. We played those songs for I don't know how many months before we pulled into Muscle Shoals, Alabama, set up at the Holiday Inn and went in, and recorded for five days. Bob said "send me a copy of it when you get it mixed!" And we got back on the bus and went and did our next concert. I thought Bob was very brave to do what he was doing, and I was just glad to be a part of it. We felt like we were on a mission. That first tour where we just played nothing but gospel material was real exciting, because half the people were really into it, and half the people just hated us. I mean, Madeline O'Hare, the famous atheist was picketing our show! When we started playing the secular material it was a mixture of both, and I tell you, the first night up in San Francisco that we played "Like a Rolling Stone," and we went into the intro of "Like a Rolling Stone," and everybody just went crazy. I got a chill up and down my spine from it. It was so exciting. When he went into "How does it feel?" everybody just went crazy. Just went crazy. So, it was great. But we didn't abandon the gospel material. One of my favorite, favorite memories of doing the gospel tour is people would hold up signs. And Someone down in the front row had a sign that said "Jesus loves your old songs, too." I thought it was perfect.