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Chris Isaak Christmas
Release Date: 2004 10 12
Label: Wicked Game/Reprise
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If you're going to invite a hipster recording artist into your home for Christmas, it may as well be Chris Isaak -- he's cool but he's also well-mannered, and can act sly enough for your thinks-she's-bohemian sister without scaring your Grandmother in the process. Like no small number of veteran recording artists, Isaak has cut an album of holiday tunes, cleverly called Chris Isaak Christmas, and while like most similar projects you get the sense that Chris didn't put quite the same amount of work into this that would of gone into a "real" album, he thankfully didn't skimp on quality control along the way. Isaak wrote five new tunes for this project, and "Washington Square" and "Christmas on TV" are solid contributions to his catalog of bummed-out love songs, while "Gotta Be Good" is a likable nugget of blues-flavored growl. Elsewhere, Isaak has thrown in a solid selection of Christmas standards, which he and his band have given an easygoing but full-bodied treatment that's solidly in the style of his best work, favoring the playful over the cloying. On the cool scale, Chris Isaak Christmas sure won't replace your copy of the Phil Spector Christmas album, but as background music for your Christmas party it makes for a happening switch from treacle like Kenny G or Mannheim Steamroller, and you know you can count on a surfer to sing "Mele Kalikimaka" like he already knows what it means. Just don't let Chris get too close to the mistletoe. The guy has a reputation, you know. Mark Deming, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1Rudolph the Red-Nosed ReindeerMarks2:11
2Have Yourself a Merry Little ChristmasMartin, Blane3:09
3Santa Claus Is Coming to TownCoots, Gillespie2:30
4Washington SquareIsaak3:22
5Blue ChristmasHayes, Johnson2:20
6Christmas SongWells, Torme2:46
7Hey Santa!Isaak2:43
8Let It SnowStyne, Cahn2:28
9Christmas on TVIsaak2:18
10Pretty PaperNelson2:33
11White ChristmasBerlin2:31
12Mele KalikimakaAnderson1:55
13Brightest StarIsaak3:03
14Last Month of the YearTraditional2:13
15Gotta Be GoodIsaak2:41
16Auld Lang SyneTraditional1:08

Other Releases:
Chris Isaak Christmas [DVD]
Release Date: 2004
Label: Soundstage 15 Records








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