Christmas Album of the Week:


Go Tell It On The Mountain
The Blind Boys of Alabama

This album won the 2003 Grammy Award as Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album- a honor very richly deserved. Two years ago when I last did this Christmas album posting, I put htis album here when it was a new album. It has lost absolutely none of its power. From their web site, here's who's here with them...

This 12-song collection is a work of both comforting familiarity and startling innovation, with genre-crossing guest vocal appearances by Solomon Burke, George Clinton, Michael Franti, Chrissie Hynde, Shelby Lynne, Les McCann, Me'Shell NdegÈOcello, Aaron Neville, Mavis Staples, and Tom Waits. There are special instrumental guest performances by Richard Thompson (electric guitar) and Robert Randolph (pedal steel guitar) in addition to a superb studio band, led by organist John Medeski (of Medeski, Martin & Wood fame) with jump-blues guitar ace Duke Robillard and the peerless rhythm section of Danny Thompson (double bass) and Michael Jerome (drums).

Away in a Manger as a 12-bar blues; Aaron Neville with an acapella gem of Joy to the World; Tom Waits in a bluesy Go Tell It On the Mountain. This is the passion of Christmas as you won't hear it very often!



Last week's Christmas Album:

The Happy Holidays
A Bluegrass Christmas from
Monroe Crossing

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