Music for Grownups: Top Ten Holiday Albums
By: Richard Gehr | Source: AARP.org | 2008-12-01
Richard Gehr is a veteran music critic based in New York City. His reviews for AARP.org appear every Tuesday; his columns on Thursdays.
A stack of holiday albums sways precariously on my desk. It represents only a fraction of the seasonal releases this year, and an even smaller portion of the thousands of holiday albums released during the history of recorded sound. Offerings 2008 range from traditional carols and standards to reinvented rock and jazz arrangements to moody midwinter evocations of the holidays' pagan origins. Here are my favorites:... Back to Article
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