Sheryl Crow - Home for Christmas

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Title: Home for Christmas
Artist: Sheryl Crow
Audio CD (Nov 26, 2008)
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Christmas:
Format: Free Lossless Audio Codec


Track Listing:

01. Go Tell It on the Mountain
02. The Christmas Song
03. White Christmas
04. I'll Be Home for Christmas
05. Merry Christmas, Baby
06. The Bells of St. Mary's
07. Blue Christmas
08. O Holy Night/It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
09. There Is a Star That Shines Tonight
10. Hello My Friend, Hello
11. All Through the Night


Allmusic Review:
Originally released as a Hallmark exclusive for the holiday season of 2008, Home for Christmas was expanded by a single cut for its exclusive 2010 for Target: ΓΓé¼┼ôLong Road Home,ΓΓé¼┬¥ taken from Sheryl CrowΓΓé¼Γäós fine 2010 tribute to Southern soul, 100 Miles from Memphis. This may be a secular tune, but it fits snugly next to the rest of Home for Christmas, as that holiday record was designed as a slow, soulful stroll through seasonal classics, Crow turning in excellent versions of tunes as diverse as ΓΓé¼┼ôGo Tell It on the Mountain,ΓΓé¼┬¥ ΓΓé¼┼ôThe Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire),ΓΓé¼┬¥ and ΓΓé¼┼ôIΓΓé¼Γäóll Be Home for Christmas.ΓΓé¼┬¥ Crow doesnΓΓé¼Γäót necessarily reinvent these songs -- ΓΓé¼┼ôMerry Christmas BabyΓΓé¼┬¥ is taken at a slightly faster gait than usual, ΓΓé¼┼ôWhite ChristmasΓΓé¼┬¥ grooves like classic Stax -- but she does inhabit them and her band is tight and dexterous, giving this Christmas album some unexpected and welcome soul. ItΓΓé¼Γäós a good enough holiday album that it shouldnΓΓé¼Γäót be thought of as a thrown-off exclusive: itΓΓé¼Γäós one of the better pop Christmas records of the last half of the 2000s.