I received this last year after our December issue had already been published. It never makes a lot of sense to me to review holiday music after Christmas, so it's been sitting and awaiting review this whole time. Well, let me just say that you shouldn't come here looking for a lot of well-known holiday classics. Instead, this is mostly built around tracks that you won't find in your holiday collection. The music here is quite country music oriented, but it's mostly a flavoring rather than a landscape on a lot of the songs. You'll also find pop music, soul, jazz and more built into this collection. It's an effective set of music that all centers some way around the holiday.

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A mellower and quite intricate sound makes the start of this. The tune has less energy than the opener did, but doesn't lose any charm. There is more country in the mix this time.

A slower moving number, this is packed with power in the arrangement. The vocal performance is among the best of the set. There is a good balance here between mellower sounds and more powered up ones. This piece really soars at times.