It
seems that any veteran recording artist eventually winds up recording
their own holiday album, so it makes perfect sense that Rick
Springfield finally got around to releasing his own in 2007 with
Christmas with You. Apart from the original title song, Springfield
relies on standards here, with traditional carols far outweighing
relatively recent secular holiday tunes; in fact, only "I'll Be Home
for Christmas" can qualify in the latter category. Springfield not only
sticks to the classics, he gives many of these spare, baroque acoustic
treatments that emphasize their folk origin. These stark arrangements
combined with the clean production can give Christmas with You almost a
new age feel, but Springfield's raspy voice prevents this from getting
spacy, and he does cut loose on a surf music version of "Deck the
Halls" (thereby earning the subtitle "With Boughs of Longboards") and
gives "I'll Be Home for Christmas" a bit of a goofy doo wop feel. The
album could use just a little bit more of this dose of fun, but in its
measured, inventive way, Christmas with You is far from the standard
holiday album, and it's hard not to admire that Springfield opted for
something different on his Christmas record than the same warm, toasty
arrangements of the same songs that show up on most seasonal albums by
veteran artists.
01. Christmas With You [0:03:00.22] 02. The First Noel [0:03:26.23] 03. Hark The Herald Angels Sing [0:03:39.02] 04. What Child Is This? [0:02:52.35] 05. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen [0:03:21.40] 06. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear [0:03:12.67] 07. Away In A Manger [0:03:50.11] 08. O Come All Ye Faithful [0:03:25.71] 09. Carol Of The Bells [0:02:32.74] 10. Do You Hear What I Hear? [0:03:02.05] 11. I'll Be Home For Christmas [0:03:01.62] 12. Silent Night [0:02:47.19] 13. Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem [0:02:56.69] 14. I Saw Three Ships [0:01:56.05] 15. Deck The Halls (With Boughs Of Longboards) [0:02:15.72] 16. White Christmas [0:03:21.64]
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