A Bluegrass Christmas (E1, 2009)
Charlie Daniels Band
Reviewed by Dan MacIntosh
Daniels also made sure everybody knows full well that this is a Southern Christmas music collection. Song titles include Christmas Time Down South, Mississippi Christmas and A Carolina Christmas Carol. [Nope, not a Boston or New York Christmas selection in the bunch]. And while there are "secular" tunes, like The Christmas Song, nicely sung by Dan Tyminski, Daniels is equally unashamed to put a whole lot of his Christianity into this work. Hallelujah is particularly to the Christ-centric point, and if that's not enough, the Christmas story is read from the book of Luke by Mr. Daniels himself.
Yes, there are a lot of layers to this work, but the bottom line is that Daniels and his friends play and sing well throughout. Therefore, even if you may not share Daniels' Christianity or have a zip code someplace North, East or West, you'll still get a lot of pleasure from this work.
CDs by Charlie Daniels Band
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