Melissa Etheridge - A New Thought for Christmas

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Title: A New Thought for Christmas
Artist: Melissa Etheridge
Audio CD (September 30, 2008)
Original Release Date: 2008
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Christmas
Format: Free Lossless Audio Codec


Track Listing:

01. Blue Christmas
02. Glorious
03. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
04. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
05. Ring The Bells
06. Merry Christmas Baby
07. Christmas In America
08. Light A Light
9. It's Christmas Time
10. O Night Divine


Amazon Description:
What if someone made a Christmas album for everybody else? That's exactly what Melissa Etheridge has done. Working alongside her producer David Cole, Melissa's songs celebrate a spiritual time of year where people can rejoice in their traditional, or non-traditional ways, and celebrate a winter solstice filled with love and peace. This ten song album has newly composed songs such as "Ring The Bells," "Light A Light," and "It's Christmas Time" interspersed with traditional holiday standards such as "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" and "Blue Christmas." This album begs the question, "If we're all talking about peace on earth, what if we all concentrated on peace on earth and made it happen?"

Allmusic Review:
Melissa Etheridge's Christmas album -- released in 2008, reissued in deluxe form the following year -- is faithful to her blues-rock beginnings while retaining a pleasant, relaxed, seasonal vibe. To Etheridge's credit, she devotes a considerable chunk of the record to originals, mostly slower, meditative pieces, but she kicks up the tempo on "It's Christmas Time," which stands alongside the bluesy shuffle of "Merry Christmas Baby" and "Blue Christmas" as the liveliest stuff here.