Old Rivers/Twas the Night Before Christmas...Back Home

Walter Brennan - Old Rivers/Twas the Night Before Christmas...Back Home

Old Rivers/Twas the Night Before Christmas...Back Home
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Artist: Walter Brennan
Brand: Old
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-10-10
Music Label: Collector's Choice
Soundtracks:
  1. Old Rivers
  2. The Old Kelly Place
  3. Conversation with a Mule
  4. The Farmer and the Lord
  5. Happy Birthday Old Folk
  6. It Takes a Heap of Living
  7. Boll Weevil
  8. Steal Away
  9. Pickin' Time
  10. Old Rivers' Trunk
  11. White Christmas
  12. Just Three Letters for Christmas
  13. A Farmer's Christmas Prayer
  14. Henry Had A Merry Christmas
  15. Old Time Christmas Prayer
  16. (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays
  17. Silent Night
  18. Christmas Together
  19. Let the Bells Ring Out
  20. A Good Year for Santa Claus
  21. O Come All Ye Faithful

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Free Music Review: A Step Back In Time
Hit: 5 Stars

This is a great piece of Americana. Walter Brennan portrayed the penultimate "common man," and this theme is reflected throughout this CD. You will not find a smooth, sophisticated crooner here - heck, you won't really find any actual singing, except for the back-up singers. What you will find is the spoken word set to music, and done so effectively as to occasionally bring a tear to the eye.

I'm not sure if you have to be familiar with Walter Brennan's acting to appreciate this CD, but it wouldn't hurt. Indeed, if you are at all familiar with the old television show "The Real McCoys," you will find that these songs are more like Grandpa Amos telling his stories to music.

"Old Rivers" was a hit song in 1962, and I remember listening to it on my transistor radio as a 12-year-old kid and getting choked up over it. Brennan also had three other top 100 songs. All of the songs have a "back home" appeal, with a strong Christian bent, and a respect for hard work, integrity and tradition. There are some unique Christmas songs that will help to fill out your holiday music collection, as well as Brennan's version of a few classics. All of these songs will make you long for an America that existed once, at least in myth.

Is this CD for everyone? Not on your life. I strongly recommend that you listen to the available song samples before buying. If you remember these songs from when they first came out, or if you want to be transported back to a different era, to a country life, then you will enjoy this CD. I was thrilled to find it available and enjoy it immensely, but then again, I'm older than the songs.
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