Melissa Etheridge - A New Thought For Christmas
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Free Music Review: Awesome Christmas music
Hit: 4 Stars
After hearing Melissa on a live radio interview doing songs from this Christmas album I immediately purchased it. I am happy to say that I was not disappointed. It's up there with my other "Go To" Christmas music.Free Music Review: Great covers, originals apparently for faithful followers
Hit: 3 Stars
I am not a big Etheridge fan, I just picked this up a week or so ago because I noticed this when looking for a bluesy Christmas album. I love her covers of some of the classics like "Blue Christmas" and the guitar work is sweet, but sorry the originals don't seem memorable to me. They are not bad, but seem sort of bland to me. I think one problem (for me at least) was the attempt to mine a deep spiritual meaning from Christmas with only a veiled nod of disdain to traditional Christian spirituality. You can have a lot of fun with a totally secular recording if you don't like Christianity and I own and enjoy many recordings in that vein, but those recordings focus on tradition, fun, romance, and family. Christmas already has a rich spiritual context, one that is as complex and multifaceted as anyone could imagine, and if you don't go for that, it has be pretty good to avoid losing in comparison. Sorry, but reflecting on farmer's almanac facts like the relative length of days and nights is not a message that will bring hope to brighten the lives of those who are oppressed. The traditional Christmas tree defeats the trendy Festivus pole for me. So this is a new thought for Christmas, an original one for sure, just not a great one.