White Christmas CD is just like the ones I used to know! CD includes 17 favorites by Bing Crosby (tracks 9 thru 17 are bonus tracks by Bing Crosby and Friends). CD is packaged in an exclusive circular metal container. Songs include: “White Christmas”, “Adeste Fideles”, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, “Away in a Manger”, “O’ Little Town of Bethlehem”, “Silent Night”, “That Christmas Feeling”, “Jingle Bells”, “Hitch a Ride With Santa Claus”, “The Snowman”, “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”, “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”, “The Christmas Song”, “Deck the Halls”, “Hark/ The Herald Angles Sing”, “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” and “O’ Come All Ye Faithfull”.

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An album like this could cement Sarah McLachlan as a middle-of-the-road crooner ready for the Andy Williams Christmas Show, but there’s more beneath the surface of Wintersong than just Christmas chestnuts, over-roasting on an open fire. Longtime McLachlan producer Pierre Marchand blurs the borders with ambient sound effects, distorted guitars, and subtle echoes. He adds a Mark Isham-esque muted trumpet solo emerging out of reverse echoes on “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” as if viewing the song through a distorted mirror. Violins that sound like they’re being blown through a Leslie speaker combine unpredictably with a banjo on “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” And on the seventh song, McLachlan finally kicks the album into another gear, turning “The First Noël” into a storming entreaty backed by tribal drums and surging low strings. Her voice is like the serene angel amidst the raging storm. I wish McLachlan had taken more chances like this, instead of the subtle fra (more…)