John Denver - Rocky Mountain Christmas
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Artist: John DenverEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2011-10-24
Music Label: RCA Records Label
Accessories: Soundtracks:
- Aspenglow
- The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
- Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
- Silver Bells
- Please, Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
- Christmas For Cowboys
- Away In a Manger
- What Child Is This
- Coventry Carol
- Oh Holy Night
- Silent Night, Holy Night
- A Baby Just Like You
- Jingle Bells
- White Christmas
- The Music Is You
- Perhaps Love
- Dreamland Express
Free Music Notes for Rocky Mountain Christmas
Free Music Review: John Denver provides an ideal Christmas album for listening to in front of the fire
Hit: 5 Stars
The songs on this album constitute a "Rocky Mountain Christmas" more because John Denver is singing them than because they are about the holidays in the high mountains. Only the opening track, "Aspenglow," would suggest the later, but I know I am not alone in associating Denver's music with that western mountain chain (I always listen to his first greatest hits album why driving through the Rockies). Besides that first track Denver also had a hand in writing "A Baby Just Like You" and the last three bonus tracks on the album, but the chief charm here is hearing songs like "Silver Bells" turned into John Denver songs.
"Rocky Mountain Christmas" is ideal for quiet nights in front of the fire. Most of the songs rely on simple accompaniment by acoustic guitars, although sometimes an entire country band shows up for the likes of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and a harpsichord pops up as well. But clearly the effort here is to keep things simple. There is a nice trio of traditional carols in the middle of the album with "Away in a Manger," "What Child is This?" and "Coventry Carol," which makes up for having "Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)" intruding in the lineup (for me it stands out like a sore thumb). Fortunately in between the two is Eric Weisberg's "Christmas for Cowboys," which serves as a nice transition.
Actually the songs that impressed me the most were the ones where Denver tackles something different, which would be "Coventry Carol" and "O Holy Night." The accompaniments are more formal and so is his singing, but still with his distinctive tenor voice. This is the 1998 reissue of the CD and as such adds five bonus tracks to make it even better: "Jingle Bells," "White Christmas," "The Music is You," "Perhaps Love," and "Dreamland Express." The last three are not exactly Christmas songs and give the end of the album a decidedly different feel, so you may actually just want the CD with 14 tracks and not this one with 17 (I do not believe you can get a CD with just the 12 tracks from the original album). Or else you can just program this one to end the way you want.
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