This album was released last year. I didn't get a copy in time for our December issue last year, so I've been hanging onto it until now. The cover of this album gives you a really idea of what you will get here, if you look at the picture. One window seems to show a religious version of Christmas, while the other shows the secular. That is literally how this album is set up. Personally I prefer the second (secular) half of the disc. Part of that comes from the fact that I have some issues lyrically with the other half, but a bigger issue is the fact that the music for the secular songs is just a lot more fun. The album shows off a balance between soft rock styles that at times lean toward country and even jazz. The first half of the album just seems to take itself much too seriously to really be all that enjoyable. I wonder if it might have been a more balanced release if they had alternated between religious and secular songs rather than splitting it down the middle. In any event, this is a solid release that has some really strong stuff.

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