Dwight Yoakam - Come on Christmas
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Artist: Dwight YoakamEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-09-16
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Come on Christmas
- Run Run Rudolph
- Silver Bells - Beth Andersen, Dwight Yoakam
- I'll Be Home for Christmas
- Silent Night
- Santa Claus Is Back in Town
- Christmas Song
- Away in the Manger
- Here Comes Santa Claus
- Santa Can't Stay
Music reviews of Come on Christmas
Music Review: Two great original songs, but mostly the old chestnuts
Rating: 5 Stars
Dwight opens this album with the title track, a great original bluesy song about being depressed in September but looking forward to some Christmas cheer. Dwight then revives the old Chuck Berry classic, Run run Rudolph, and there's nobody of Dwight's generation better suited to this song. Silver bells, another song of fifties origin, has long been one of my favorite Christmas standards. Dwight's distinctive version features Beth Andersen, who provides harmonies. Dwight again stamps his own identity on the classic ballads, I'll be home for Christmas and Silent night. Not that any of these standards stray far from the original arrangements, but Dwight does enough to make sure that you know he's not just another singer of the same old songs.
Another fifties song follows, this being Santa Claus is back in town, which Leiber and Stoller song was first popularized by Elvis Presley and to which Dwight is ideally suited. The Christmas song, Away in a manger and Here comes Santa Claus all provide further evidence of Dwight's ability to take well-known classics and make them sound a little different while retaining the basic familiar sound. Finally, the album closes with Dwight's second original song, Santa can't stay, which provides an interesting perspective on modern family life.
Although I am a huge fan of Dwight's music, I wasn't really sure that I wanted this particular album, but I'm glad that the price tempted by me. Yes, there are a lot of old standards here, but Dwight has managed to inject new life into them without trying to re-interpret them in a radically different way. And quite apart from them, this would be worth it for the two original songs if you haven't got them already on a multi-artist Christmas compilation. It's a real bargain at the price.
Description of Come on Christmas
Dwight Yoakam's work as an interpretive singer has been solid and, as far as Christmas music albums go, this one is informed with Yoakam's great vocal talents and a country band that can get these tunes to swing in any juke joint. The rumba of "Here Comes Santa Claus" is a tad forced, but Yoakam's good humor is in evidence. This album may lack the gravitas of his best work, but it shows that even a cowboy feels like kicking off his existential boots sometimes and getting down with standards from years bygone. --Rob O'ConnorNoels CDs
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