October 2010 Archives

Another progress report on this site

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I'm a little late getting started with the new season's postings for personal reasons, but not to worry, I should have some goodies for the kids within the next week. Also, the progress report on the site upgrade is that most of the material from the old site is now packed inside the current site. The exceptions: all the rock 'n roll from the old site's 1990s and 2000s pages, all the stuff from the two compilations categories on the old site, the miscellaneous section and the old site's letters and the "Yule blog." With the introduction of comments, I thought the letters section had become obsolete, but some folks have still been sending letters anyway, so under categories I created a "Letters to Mistletunes" section. It's still not populated with the old site's letters, but it eventually will be. Recent letters since the site upgrade are there, however. So if you want to nose around the old site, once again, the link is here.

Home For Christmas, Sheryl Crow (Hallmark)

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sherylcd.jpgSheryl's been to the holiday well before with a few tunes in the Very Special Christmas series, but this full album is all new, though she revisits "Blue Christmas" here in a bluesier version than the Very Special performance and does a studio version of "Merry Christmas Baby" as opposed to the live performance she shared with Eric Clapton. As this endeavor was commissioned by Hallmark for 2008, it stands to reason that this is going to be something that regular Hallmark store customers would be comfortable with, but Crow manages to avoid going too middle of the road here, falling back on blues and soul readymades in a lot of cases, even recasting "O Holy Night" as an R'nB showstopper. "Go Tell It On the Mountain" gets the requisite gospel treatment, though "I'll Be Home For Christmas" and "There Is a Star That Shines Tonight" are definitely for the Hallmark crowd. After you bring a copy of this home, you can download "Hello My Friend Hello," which may or may not be a Sheryl original but is another mellow Christmas ballad. I would have preferred a little more like her version of "Run Rudolph Run" from VSC, but I understand why that wasn't likely. UPDATE: This album is back in the racks for 2010 at Target with a different cover, and "Hello My Friend Hello" is promoted to the new disc's track listing.
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