Sarah's season.Wintersong * Sarah McLachlan * Arista arista (ä·riˑ·st Sarah McLachlan has essentially been singing the same song for two decades. Fortunately, it's a good one, even when it's not hers--as is the case for all but one track of her first Christmas album. For Wintersong, McLachlan has put her predictably lush lite-pop spin on yuletide standards and classics like "Silent Night" and "O Little Town of Bethlehem O Little Town of Bethlehem traditional Christmas carol. [Western Culture: “0 Little Town of Bethlehem” in Rockwell, 120–121] See : Christmas ," and rarely have they sounded this gorgeous. Despite the occasional misstep into airy, snooze-inducing territory, as on "I'll Be Home for Christmas," she's remarkably adept at making typical holiday fare sound fresh. "The First Noel," for instance, is transformed into a moody Middle Eastern-tinged medley med·ley n. pl. med·leys 1. An often jumbled assortment; a mixture: "That night he dreamed he was traveling in a foreign country, only it seemed to be a medley of all the countries he'd ever been to and with "Mary Mary ''This article is about the musical duo. For other uses, see Mary Mary (disambiguation). Mary Mary is an American gospel music duo, consisting of sisters Erica Monique Campbell ( born April 29, 1972 [1] ) and Trecina "Tina" Evette Campbell ." Elsewhere she offers faithful renditions of songs by John Lennon Noun 1. John Lennon - English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980) Lennon and fellow Canadian Joni Mitchell, while the stunning title track--the album's sole original composition--suggests she might one day release an even better collection composed entirely of her own winter songs. |
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