Release Date: 9/20/1994
Recording Date: 9/1994
Tracks: 15
Length: 00:46:17 Hrs
Label: Rhino
Type: CD,CS
- Genre/Styles
- Christmas, Singer/Songwriter, Psychedelic, Folk-Rock, Holidays
Album Tracks (15)
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What the Critics Say
It's amazing that it took Judy Collins until 1994 to make a Christmas album. Having decided at long last to do such a project, the singer seems to have had specific ideas about how she wanted to approach it. Accompaniment includes only piano, some restrained synthesizers aping strings or guitars here and there, and the occasional boys choir, all the better to set off Collins's angelic voice. When it comes to the Christmas repertoire, she seems particularly interested in the nativity, picking one song after another that deals with the birth of Christ and reciting from the Gospel according to Luke during "Away in a Manger." She even adds to the list of songs about the Christ Child with her own "All on a Wintry Night" and "Come Rejoice." Her third compositional contribution is "Song for Sarajevo (I Dream of Peace)," which adopts the persona of a child in that war-torn city. As Christmas records go, this one has a formal beauty typical of Collins's art-song orientation. It's lovely, but not much fun. Even when she sings "Let It Snow" (robbed of its thrice-repeated title and exclamation marks), she sings it in a slow, regal manner rather than in the more familiar, bouncy style. The album ends with a re-recording of her hit arrangement of "Amazing Grace." ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
