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I heard one clip over the sound system at my church and immediately knew I had to get this CD. Absolutely great.
Delightful and inspiring. Each Christmas I buy music from a genre that is relatively new to me. This year it was Yolanda Adams, and I'm so glad.
Excellent to have around the house. Get it, you'll enjoy it. Great for family and party gatherings. Yolanda's first christmas project (the second one was released today - What A Wonderful Time) is very well crafted soft project. It'll lift your spirit and bring you to a place of gladness.Kudos Yolanda~ That is sing well and provide great variety of gospel music (pop/r&b/contemporary gospel/jazz/traditional gospel). She does what she does best on this project. Standout tracks are: HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS, BORN THIS DAY, CAROL OF BELLS/WHAT CHILD IS THIS MEDLEY, OH HOLY NIGHT, IT CAME UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR.
There is also an imaginative medley of "Carol of the Bells" and "What Child Is This." And while soul versions of "Oh Holy Night" are hardly unheard of, you'd better be worth your salt, frankincense and myrrh to even attempt it. Call it a mental block. I mean, if you can breathe new life into some of the standard Xmas warhorses, you can pretty much do anything. All I know is there are two soulful, powerhouse singers named Adams out there (more, if you count Ryan, Bryan--still more confusion--and Edie).I always tell folks that if there's a singer whose work they DON'T know, check out their holiday album (if any).
I was poking around the holiday section of the local library's CD collection, just hoping to find something a little different, when I came across this collection by Yolanda Adams and thought,"Hmmm. Yolanda Adams is up to the task.Good stuff. So believe you can fly, Yolanda, cuz it's clear you can.Adams is never less than professional when attempting the standard holiday fare, and much of the album is just that: soulful but not overwrought interpretations of songs like "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas," the umpteenth version of "The Christmas Song" (nicely done, if not exactly a revelation) and, yes, even "The Little Drummer Boy." But the gospel inflected original (I believe) "Born This Day" truly soars. "Get Here" was a powerhouse song, so how bad can this be."How embarrassing to get my Adams(es).
It's often cheaper, and it does provide the ultimate test. And a great stocking stuffer. confused, but then I had the same problem back in high school when I'd constantly be mixing up John and John Quincy. Or something.
This is one of those "must" albums you have to buy for yourself and then for your friends - just maybe in that order. Yolanda's voice simply radiates with beauty, clarity and that motivating energy of pure love. What sheer delight listening to this, one of the finest ever Christmas CD's. Could listen to this one 12 months of the year and keep the Spirit of Christmas gloriously alive.
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