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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0602517746763 Label: Island Manufacturer: Island Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Island Release Date: September 30, 2008 Studio: Island Sales Rank: 430 Disc 1:
Editorial Review: Album Description: What if someone made a Christmas album for everybody else? That's exactly what Melissa Etheridge has done. Working alongside her producer David Cole, Melissa's songs celebrate a spiritual time of year where people can rejoice in their traditional, or non-traditional ways, and celebrate a winter solstice filled with love and peace. This ten song album has newly composed songs such as "Ring The Bells," "Light A Light," and "It's Christmas Time" interspersed with traditional holiday standards such as "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" and "Blue Christmas." This album begs the question, "If we're all talking about peace on earth, what if we all concentrated on peace on earth and made it happen?" Melissa Etheridge has been a core Island Records artist since the release of her critically-acclaimed eponymous debut, which led to an invitation to sing on the 1989 Grammy Awards broadcast. For several years, Melissa's popularity built around such memorable songs as "Bring Me Some Water" (from her debut), "No Souvenirs" (from 1989's Brave And Crazy) and "Ain't It Heavy" (from 1992's Never Enough), for which she won her first Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal. Melissa hit her commercial and artistic stride with her fourth album, 1993's Yes I Am, featuring the massive hits "I'm the Only One" and "Come to My Window," a searing song of longing that brought her second Best Female Rock Grammy. The album went six times platinum and spent more than two and a half years on the album chart. In 1995, she issued her highest charting album, Your Little Secret (#6 on the Billboard Top 200), which included the hit single, "I Want to Come Over." Her astounding success led Melissa to receive the Songwriter of the Year honor at the ASCAP Pop Awards in 1996. Melissa continued to write, record, and tour throughout the '90s and into the new millennium. In 2006, she was approached by Al Gore to write a song for his documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth. The result was "I Need To Wake Up" and in February 2007, she won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Melissa's Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled was repackaged to include the OSCAR® winning song. In April 2007, Melissa Etheridge received the distinguished ASCAP Founders Award honoring the anthemic power, compassion, and generosity of spirit of her music, and her enduring status as one of the greatest all-time female rock icons. In September 2007, she released The Awakening, which was selected by Rolling Stone Magazine as #20 on its Top 50 albums of 2007. Average Rating:
 Rating: - How can you not love Melissa singing Christmas MusicI'm not one who listens to Christmas music after Dec 25, but I can't put this CD away. I truly love it. It's all I listen to driving to and from work. Rating: - Another great album by Melissa!I wasn't sure what to expect but I just love this cd! I recommend it for anyone who loves the old traditional songs that have a new age twist. She is amazing as always. I love it!! Rating:  - Great covers, originals apparently for faithful followers I am not a big Etheridge fan, I just picked this up a week or so ago because I noticed this when looking for a bluesy Christmas album. I love her covers of some of the classics like "Blue Christmas" and the guitar work is sweet, but sorry the originals don't seem memorable to me. They are not bad, but seem sort of bland to me. I think one problem (for me at least) was the attempt to mine a deep spiritual meaning from Christmas with only a veiled nod of disdain to traditional Christian spirituality. ... Read More Rating:  - A New Voice For ChristmasIt is so great to hear some NEW Christmas tunes...especially when they are sung so passionately by the great Melissa Etheridge. I really enjoyed her versions of some of the classics, as well as her original songs. She's written some great lyrics and the message is clear...let's remember that Christmas is a time for peace. Loved this one! Rating: - Step Out from the DarkMelissa Etheridge's Christmas record is perfectly conceived. She combines mostly new originals with a few classic songs and balances the softer sounds with her trademark rock. The blues guitar on "Blue Christmas" builds to a thundering storm for those who are sad for the holidays. My favorite track is "Glorious" with Paul Trudeau's keyboards tinkling joyfully as Melissa's lovely vocals caress the lyrics gently, "I have heard the angels sweetly singing o'er the plains & I heard the mountain echoing ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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