What Becomes a Classic Most?
Streisand at her apex in recordings made almost three-and-a-half decades apart. Make no mistake--she’s the classic here, and…
Category: Reviews
Big Brass Ones for Christmas
On its fifth holiday album, CHRISTMASTIME IS HERE, CANADIAN BRASS honors the music of animated Yule favorites and…
Christmas As He Knew It
JOHNNY CASH's CLASSIC CHRISTMAS ALBUM is a sampling from the three Yule albums the Man in Black recorded…
A Classic Restored
Long unavailable on these shores in CD form, a Christmas classic from GLEN CAMPBELL, 1968's THAT CHRISTMAS FEELING,…
When Vintage Becomes Timeless
DAVID IAN did it in 2011 with Vintage Christmas, and does it again in 2012 with Vintage Christmas…
Shimmying Down the Chimney
Not wanting to be the only artist on the planet without a Christmas album, MARIA MULDAUR delivers a…
In Which He Keeps Christmas Well
The old curmudgeon, you ask? No, NICK LOWE is now the old sentimentalist, complete with his own Christmas…
Essential Sondheim
STEPHEN SONDHEIM's life and music, inextricably linked, are explored in captivating fashion in the new HBO documentary, SIX…
Christmas Beyond the Blue
BLUES, BLUES CHRISTMAS VOLUME 3 leads this revised and updated review of four essential blues Christmas albums, including…
Very Mary Indeed
Unquestionably the top new Christmas release of 2013, A MARY CHRISTMAS, the DAVID FOSTER-produced holiday long player from…