Nice New Life

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About the Artist
Paradox first came onto the scene with the underground Hip Hop group "Partners in Poetry" in the mid '90s. In time, he gave his life and his talents to Jesus Christ for the work of salvation toward himself and others.

At various studios, he runs the boards of production with depth and all original tracks. His songs focus on the Word of God and the world we live in. Moved by his conviction that the scriptures are the inspired Word of God, he dares you to search and expand your knowledge of truth for yourself.

To go along with his musical ministry, he created GETGOSPEL.com. Paradox believes that we dishonor Jesus by being passive with the gifts and talents that he blessed us with. We weren't empowered to sit down and hope that someone's eyes would be opened by chance, but as Christ's representatives we should use our talents with the intent to encourage positive change in people's lives.

Product Description
The hot prequel to the upcoming Paradox album.

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Merry Christmas and Have a Nice Life - Cyndi Lauper
You will always be Christmas to me.
Great For Decorating A Christmas Tree
Have a Celtic, Cajun, Creole and Coptic Christmas!
A masterpiece - pure magic

Merry Christmas Have a Nice Life
Cyndi Lauper
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ASIN: B0002S94NE
Release Date: 2004-08-24

Tracks:

Home On Christmas Day
Early Christmas Morning
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
Christmas Conga
Minnie And Santa
Feels Like Christmas
Three Ships
New Year's Baby (Lullaby)
December Child
In The Bleak Midwinter
Silent Night

Customer Reviews:

Merry Christmas and Have a Nice Life - Cyndi Lauper.......2007-01-24

Love the CD - Bought it for the Christmas Conga, which is such an upbeat Christmas song..

You will always be Christmas to me........2005-12-23

Cyndi Lauper's Christmas album is a real treat. It isn't "just another Christmas album". Seven of the eleven songs are originals that Cyndi co-wrote, and they are all fine songs. If you like Cyndi, you'll like this album.

Great For Decorating A Christmas Tree.......2005-12-05

This is a great CD to POP in while you decorate the tree. It has the classic songs, her rock songs, her funny songs.
1.) Home on Christmas Day - A slow rock song that has the typical guitar the is a trademark of her music.
2.) Early Christmas Morning - Starts off with kids singing like if it was a Chrismas Caroll, then she comes in and adds her punk style to the album to get you in the mood.
3.) Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - I think we all know this song, she does it with like a funky beat and he high pitched voice.
4.) Christmas Conga - Definately the best song on the cd, with her funky beats and her funny lyrics. Really should be a Christmas single. I think if radio played it, we would have a hit. Bonga Bonga Bonga do the Christmas Conga.......
5.) Minnie and Santa - Another funny song with her humor. A slow song but funny.
6.) Feels Like Christmas - Sounds like it starts off with bad quality, like she is singing live, but then starts to be another soft rock song.
7.) Three Ships - A slow song with a flute at the beginning, must be her playing. Typical Christmas but why three ships? Was the Columbus Day lol.....
8.) New Years Baby ( First Lulliby) - I have a feeling she wrote this for her song who is in the album cover. Also on the cover is santa ( or is it her husband). Anyway another good ballad.
9.) December Child - Very slow ballad, almost acoustic.
10.) In The Bleak Midwinter - Again a slow song, by this time you want more of the beginning and that is why this cd gets a 4 rating. I feel she could have more faster songs around this part of the cd.
11.) Silent Night - And finally the typical Christmas Anthem with a touch of Cyndi.
Overall a great Christmas Album. If you like Cyndi you will love the beginning of the album. Play the end when you are tired and want to take a nap. If you have any questions ask me. I love Cyndi and this is my review. I hope it was helpful, vote for me :)

Have a Celtic, Cajun, Creole and Coptic Christmas!.......2005-11-22

When Cyndi Lauper's MERRY CHRISTMAS...HAVE A NICE LIFE was first released back in '98, I remember reading some capsule review in some popular magazine or other (maybe PEOPLE?) to the effect that it was surprisingly good, better than it "had a right to be," in fact. Huh? Is that a compliment?

I imagine the reviewer thought he was being pretty darn generous to a performer, whom he no doubt recalled as being basically a novelty act from the early MTV days. What's frustrating about reviews like this is that they seldom reference any previous recording other than SHE'S SO UNUSUAL (or, if you're lucky, TRUE COLORS). Cyndi's 90s work(HAT FULL OF STARS and SISTERS OF AVALON) had demonstrated a maturing talent (not that the "immature" stuff was bad--far from it). It's just that, had anybody been bothering to listen, they would have known that she was an artist to be taken seriously and a force to be reckoned with.

Unfortunately, too many had written her off prematurely. And by 1998, her record company was pretty much ready to show her the door. She had one record left on her contract with SONY (who hadn't been offering much in the way of support anyway). Cyndi had gone out touring in '97, opening for Tina Turner, and giving it her all while visibly pregnant...and the record company could scarcely be bothered to promote her excellent SISTERS OF AVALON. A Christmas album seemed like a handy way to meet the terms of the contract and for artist and record company to bid each other adieu.

Christmas CDs are usually lower budget affairs (I'm told) and as it happened, Cyndi already had a couple of Christmas themed tracks in the can anyway. Actually, "Feels Like Christmas" from HAT FULL OF STARS is really more of a love song than a true holiday song, but it had the Noel thing going on in the title and a nice bounce (one of the more upbeat tracks on what was otherwise Cyndi's most serious record to date). "Early Christmas Morning" had appeared on the Japanese version of SISTERS OF AVALON, so that only meant eight or nine new tracks at the most.

It could have been a knock-off, folks, but Cyndi Lauper's sense of artistry and adventure knows few if any bounds, and musically, HAVE A NICE LIFE (the title obviously being something of a kiss-off to SONY) continues to explore the same musical terrain as the previous two records. Queens born Cyndi comes by her multi-culturalism naturally, You've got a little Zydeco here, a little Island music and her version of "Silent Night" starts off with some Mid-Eastern strains, which only begs the question, why hasn't anybody done anything like this before. But that's the closer, let's go back to the beginning.

It's been said that the best Christmas music is tinged with melancholy, and Cyndi's opener "Home for Christmas Day," replete with ringing Byrds-like guitar, is something of a rock rewrite of "I'll Be Home For Christmas." (Ever notice how many holiday albums BEGIN with the latter song: Cyndi honors the tradition in her unique way by starting off with her own updated, similary themed carol.) Then it's off to Cajun-inflected "Early Christmas Morning" and Cajun-Caribbean mix on "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (a wink and a nod to Brenda Lee--a singer she was often compared to back in the day). The fun continues with "Christmas Conga" and the winning, slightly ribald novelty "Minnie and Santa." Gradually, though, the all the spirited fun begins to give way to a more serious, solemn and (dare we say it?) spiritual mood.

Two songs in row celebrating Cyndi's recent motherhood? Why not? It might be a little much for some artists, but for one as open hearted and honest as Cyndi Lauper, it works. I've had a few "Well, I dunno about this moments" with Cyndi's ballads before (including classics like "Time After Time" and "True Colors"), but they always win me over eventually. "New Year's Baby (First Lullabye)" and "December Child" are no different, delicate songs that avoid slipping into the precious by dint of Cyndi's sheer conviction.

After starting out on such a sunny, tropical note, the album ends on an appropriately winterlike note with the Celtic flavored "In the Bleak Midwinter" and a relatively stark reading of "Silent Night." From the festive to the hauntingly fragile...Cyndi Lauper sums up the season. Definitely, not a knock-off.

Fast forward to 2003-2004, Cyndi's back with SONY (at least for now), doing the standards thing (but definitely doing them her way), and now the record company has now come out with a remastered version of this album. I haven't heard the new version yet, but it did actually seem as though this yuletide offering, delightful as it is, could have used some brightening (of sound and spirit). Looks like everyone may just be having a nice life after all.

A masterpiece - pure magic.......2005-09-16

Some people seem to be inspired when recording Christmas albums, rising above their previous performances to record the best album of their career. I knew Cyndi was good at what she did, but had never bought any of her music until I bought this after reading some reviews. I sensed, even without hearing any tracks, that this might be one of the best Christmas albums in the history of recorded music, and I was right.
Cyndi clearly enjoys Christmas - it shows in these songs. Who could resist Cyndi's invitation to Do the Christmas conga? I also enjoyed the amusing Minnie and Santa, but all the new songs are brilliant, including Early Christmas morning, which comes complete with children's choir, used effectively and well.

Cyndi has also covered a few old chestnuts - her version of Rockin' around the Christmas tree and other classics breathes new life into them, while paying respect to the originals. Although I could have done without yet another version of Silent night, Cyndi proves here that she has the skill to do the serious stuff just as well as the fun songs. Among the other serious songs, it is particularly pleasing to see that she covered In the bleak midwinter. This is a Christmas standard in Britain, but it's rare to hear it sung by an American. Her version of this song is pure magic - as good as any version I've come across.

This album is truly one of the finest Christmas albums I have ever come across in any genre of music, and you can enjoy it either as background music, or in peace and quiet giving it undivided attention. I have since bought (and enjoyed) some of Cyndi's other music, but this is something special.

You do not need to be a Cyndi fan to enjoy this, but you might become a Cyndi fan after hearing it.

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A bargain collection of showtunes

Golden Greats: Greatest Broadway Hits

Manufacturer: Golden Greats
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00005USEJ
Release Date: 2002-02-26

Tracks:

Ouverture - Orchestra
Something Wonderfull - Dorothy Sarnoff
Doin' What Comes Natur'lly - Ethel Merman
Life Upon the Wicked Stage - Colette Lyons
So in Love - Patricia Morison
You'll Never Walk Alone - Jan Clayton, Christine Johnson
Bill - Carol Bruce
Hello, Young Lovers - Gertrude Lawrence
Bloody Mary - Male Chorus
I Can't Say No - Celeste Holm
This Was a Real Nice Clambake - Jan Clayton,
Oklahoma! - Alfred Drake
Sue Me - Vivian Blaine, Sam Levene
Woman Is a Sometime Thing - Edward Matthews
Some Enchanted Evening - Ezio Pinza,
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' - Todd Duncan, Todd Duncan
Guys and Dolls - Douglas Deane, Stubby Kaye, Johnny Silver
It Ain't Necessarily So - Lawrence Tibbett
Make Believe - Jan Clayton
Wonderful Guy - Mary Martin
They Say It's Wonderful - Ethel Merman
When the Children Are Asleep - Jean Darling, Eric Mattson
More I Cannot Wish You - Pat Rooney, Sr., Pat Rooney, Sr.
Puzzlement - Yul Brynner
I Got Lost in His Arms - Ethel Merman

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Overture...Summertime - Anne Brown
Why Can't You Behave? - Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man - Carol Bruce
There's No Business Like Show Business - Chorus
If I Were a Bell - Isabel Bigley
People Will Say That We're in Love - Alfred Drake, Joan Roberts
Bess, You Is My Woman Now - Anne Brown
Luck Be a Lady Tonight - Robert Alda
Shall I Tell You What I Think of You? - Gertrude Lawrence
Girl That I Marry - Ray Middleton
Nobody Else But Me - Jan Clayton
Carousel Waltz - Orchestra
Dites-Moi - Barbara Luna
Ol' Man River - Kenneth Spencer
Summertime
Many a New Day - Joan Roberts
Blow High, Blow Low - Murvyn Vye
It Takes a Long Pull to Get There - Edward Matthews
You've Got to Be Carefully Taught - Billy Tabbert
We Open in Venice - Alfred Drake
I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair - Mary Martin
Who Do You Love, I Hope? - Kathleen Carnes, Robert Lenn
I've Never Been in Love Before - Robert Alda
Tom, Dick or Harry - Lisa Kirk
I Whistle a Happy Tune - Gertrude Lawrence

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New York, New York - Lynn Murray, Lynn Murray
Almost Like Being in Love - Marion Bell, Dave Brooks, David Brooks
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - Vivienne Segal
Beat out Dat Rhythm on a Drum - June Hawkins
How Are Things in Glocca Morra? - Ella Logan
Old Devil Moon - Ella Logan
South American Way - Carmen Miranda
September Song - Walter Huston
This Is the Army, Mister Jones - Irving Berlin
Takin' a Chance on Love - Ethel Waters
My Heart Belongs to Daddy - Mary Martin
Anything Goes - Jeanne Aubert & The Four Admirals
You're the Top - Jeanne Aubert & The Four Admirals
I Get a Kick Out of You - Ethel Merman
Night and Day - Fred Astaire
I Got Rhythm - Red Nichols & His Orchestra
Someone to Watch Over Me - Gertrude Lawrence
Fascinatin' Rhythm - Adele Astaire, Fred Astaire
Strike Up the Band - Red Nichols & His Orchestra
Makin' Whoopee - Eddie Cantor
Heatwave - Ethel Waters
Easter Parade - Clifton Webb
She Didn't Say Yes - Peggy Wood
I've Told Every Little Star - Mary Ellis
Johnny One Note - Lynn Murray, Lynn Murray

Album Description

Import exclusive, budget price compilation featuring Broadway classics like 'You'll Never Walk Alone', 'Summertime', & There's No Business Like Show Business', performed by Ethel Merman, Gertrude Lawrence, Celeste Holm, & many more. 75 tracks in all. Standard double jewel case. Disky. 2001.

Album Details

3 CD set

Customer Reviews:

A bargain collection of showtunes.......2005-08-19

This bargain collection of showtunes is highlighted by the composition of Kurt Weill and the uniquely rolling tongue of Colette Lyons. I have a complaint about this compilation. It includes "Ol' Man River", but it excludes Al Jolson's rendition of "Ol' Man River." Otherwise, this collection gives you ample bang for your buck.

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Superhits: 1966 (Time Life Music)
Bobby Hebb , Bob Lind , The Mindbenders , The Happenings , The New Vaudeville Band , The Seekers , B.J. Thomas and the Triumphs , Petula Clark , Dusty Springfield , and Gary Lewis and the Playboys
Manufacturer: Time Life Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000SY0MPQ

Product Description

SONG LIST :1. California Dreamin - The Mamas & Papas 2. Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys 3. Sunny - Bobby Herb 4. DayDream - The Lovin' Spoonful 5. Elusive Butterfly - Bob Lind 6. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield 7. A Groovy Kind of Love - The Mindbenders 8. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) - Cher 9. See You in September - The Happenings 10. Message to Michael - Dionne Warwick 11. When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge 12. You Can't Hurry Love - The Surpremes 13. I'm a Believer - The Monkees 14. Sweet Talkin' Guy - The Chiffons 15. Cherish - The Associations 16. She's Just My Style - Gary Lewis & the Playboys 17. You Didn't Have to Be So Nice - The Lovin' Spoonful 18. Georgy Girl - The Seekers 19. Winchester Cathedral - The New Vaudeville Band 20. My Love - Petula Clark 21. (You're My) Soul and Inspiration - The Righteous Brothers 22. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - B.J.Thomas

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Have a Cajun, Creole, Coptic Christmas

Merry Christmas...Have a Nice Life!
Cyndi Lauper
Manufacturer: Sony Special Product
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000BU0C70
Release Date: 2005-10-25

Tracks:

Home on Christmas Day
Early Christmas Morning - Chatterton Elementary School Choir, Cyndi Lauper
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Christmas Conga
Minnie and Santa
Feels Like Christmas
Three Ships
New Year's Baby (First Lullaby)
December Child
In the Bleak Midwinter
Silent Night - Chatterton Elementary School Choir, Cyndi Lauper

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Have a Cajun, Creole, Coptic Christmas.......2005-11-20

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I really like this album

Nice New Life
Paradox
Manufacturer: The Orchard
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001JXPNY
Release Date: 2004-02-17

Tracks:

Intro
Nice New Life
Hot Like This
Aint Ready
Rat Race
Pop Life
Heat

Album Description

The hot prequel to the upcoming Paradox album.

Customer Reviews:

I really like this album.......2004-02-22

I really like this album. I listened to the previous album (Pleased to Meet You) and liked that, but this EP is much better. The artist has matured. I love Nice New Life and Heat. Heat reminds me of the old Ice-T, Public Enemy style, ominous beats and rhymes. Kind of gritty, but thought-provoking.

This is definitely car-material. I listen to it a lot while programming, and can still get my work done.

Really interesting material. It's hip-hop, clearly, but gospel hip-hop. I can listen to this at any time and not have to turn the sound down when the four-letter words come on, because there are no four letter words.

Should you get it? If you like hip-hop, yes. Tired of the "bling" in your hip-hop? yes. Matured, and no longer care to hear about someone's pink iced-out rocks? get this album.

Looking forward to the next one.

Nashville Horizon
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Nashville Horizon
Paul Christian DeLoria
Manufacturer: Mama Llama Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CA3DA2
Release Date: 2001-03-27

Tracks:

2nd Planet
Way Back North
Sign from Above
Nashville Horizon
Past Behind
Oceanids
Someday It Will Change
Back on Second Ave.

Nice Avec Toi - fingerstyle guitar music for relaxation, yoga, massage, love and life...

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Brenne shoots.. Brenne scores!
Merci Beaucoup!
The Best YOGA cd ever!

Nice Avec Toi - fingerstyle guitar music for relaxation, yoga, massage, love and life...
Chris Brenne
Manufacturer: Magic Brew Productions
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | New Age | Styles | Music

Relaxation | New Age | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000O174HC
Release Date: 2007-03-31

Tracks:

Värmland Morning Raga
Your Breath on Me
Moon over Cap Martin
Freja
Promenade
Odalisque
Picasso on the Lake
An Elven Faun's Afternoon Raga
Nice Avec Toi
Monsoon
Lie with Me
Sun and Moon

Customer Reviews:

Brenne shoots.. Brenne scores!.......2007-07-25

Rather than listening, I found letting this music happen to you is like opening a thermos of warm colors, exotic flavors, mysteries and memories. Chris Brenne's new CD is at once calming and evocative, and carries the undercurrent of excitement felt with something new, something coming, something centred. As you bend, lean and press through yoga practice, Brenne's music will swirl around you like leaves in the breeze of a gentle exhale.
Nice Avec Toi is the best release yet from the Swedish Brenne, leave your shoes and your worries at the door and step through the portal of this bard's world. I found myself grateful for the purity of one acoustic guitar, and yet amazed at the kaleidoscope of sound and artistry he produces. Brenne's musical compass on this release wanders through several continents, sewing together influences from Indian to Swedish to Spanish into a unique tapestry of his own creation. He has thoughtfully left some evocative spaces in the music, and a nice blending of distant but sublime vocals of Parul Vakani on several tracks brings a nice sense of space and freedom to the listener. If I come back for another life, I could do worse than being a cat at the Brenne household... stretching my cares away with a grin.

Merci Beaucoup!.......2007-06-07

I am a huge fan of this CD. The music is beautiful and is great to hear at whatever time of day. In fact it's just as enjoyable to listen to during the work day as it is curled up with a hot cup of tea.

The Best YOGA cd ever!.......2007-05-26

This cd is fantastic! So great to practice yoga to or simply just play when you have a dinner party or want to relax.
I highly recommend all of Chris's cds.

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Brighten your holidays
It's time to make the Christmas punch.
Have a Creole, Cajun, Celtic and Coptic Christmas....
The Best Christmas CD in Years
So mad at myself!

Merry Christmas...Have a Nice Life!
Cyndi Lauper
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000DFU2
Release Date: 1998-10-27

Tracks:

Home On Christmas Day
Early Christmas Morning
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
Christmas Conga
Minnie And Santa
Feels Like Christmas
Three Ships
New Year's Baby (First Lullaby)
December Child
In The Bleak Midwinter
Silent Night

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Cyndi Lauper has reinvented herself once again, penning a handful of original Christmas carols and cornball ditties with writing partner Jan Pulsford and recording them at home while her infant son Declyn slept. (The almost-year-old Decyln can be heard jabbering and gurgling on "New Year's Baby [First Lullaby]".) The antic Lauper who first revealed that "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" in 1983 is still in evidence, spiking the season with her endearing comic voice and calypso time signatures on such standouts as "Christmas Conga" and the bawdy "Minnie and Santa." But the standards "Three Ships" and "Silent Night" really shine, revealing a depth and emotion that was in evidence on Lauper's tender "Time After Time." --Jaan Uhelszki

Customer Reviews:

Brighten your holidays.......2007-01-04

This is not only a great holiday album, it is a classic Cyndi Lauper album. Her renditions of "Home on Christmas Day," "Christmas Conga" and "New Year's Baby" are treasures. Anyone who is a fan of Ms. Lauper's, or a fan of holiday music (beyond the same 20 tracks the radio plays over and over for weeks) should get this CD.

It's time to make the Christmas punch........2005-12-23

Have a Creole, Cajun, Celtic and Coptic Christmas...........2004-12-28

The Best Christmas CD in Years.......2004-12-06

All the credit should go to that vastly underrated performer with the crystal clear pipes- Cyndi Lauper. Most of the songs on this CD are written by Cyndi, including the already classic rocker "Home On Christmas Day," the beautiful "December Child," and the reggae charged "Christmas Conga." I even put this CD in my player throughout the entire year, whether it's Christmas or not, it's that good. While most of my other Christmas albums have been collecting dust, Cyndi Lauper's is on constant play. You have to check this one out.

So mad at myself!.......2004-12-06

This excellent cd was released in 1998 and I'm just now getting around to buying it in 2004. After just a few listens I know all the songs and can't wait to hear them again.

1. Home on Christmas Day - vintage 80's Cyndi pop song. Sweet with a bit of an edge. Catchy chorus.
2. Early Christmas Morning - Catchy song with a children's chorus.
3. Rockin Around the Christmas Tree - You know this one. Done in a fun style.
4. Christmas Conga - goofy fun, lots of humor.
5. Minnie and Santa - Bawdy little sea shanty with a great sense of humor.
6. Feels Like Christmas - This was previously released on another album, great any time of the year.
7. Three Ships - Here's where the tone changes. Really interesting take on a song you don't hear much on pop Christmas albums.
8. New Year's Baby (First Lullaby)- This is so touching and beautiful - the lyrics seem odd at first and then you get caught up in the moment of her singing to her new baby, and get to hear him gurgling in the background. Just a gorgeous song about the passage of time.
9. December Child - Lovely spiritual song, telling her newborn son about another baby whose birth is celebrated in December.
10. In the Bleak Midwinter - Haunting, beautiful.
11. Silent Night - Beautiful rendition.

There is such a range of emotion in these 11 songs from this multi-faceted performer, but the album as a whole flows beautifully. Do yourself a favor and don't let any more time pass before you get it for yourself.