Every Album on Spotify is back, baby! Since it's an opportune time to review Christmas recordings, I plan on posting a few on here in the oncoming days.
Come on Christmas is both an excellent Christmas album and an excellent Dwight Yoakam album overall. This probably shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. Dwight has always been skillful at making records and he was at the top of his game, artistically and commercially, when this came out 20 years ago. What's impressive about this one is the eclectic diversity of his arrangements and how he's able to pull it all off convincingly. There are plenty of rockers and downtempo tunes as well as some intriguing left-turns. In particular, "I'll Be Home for Christmas" rides on a nice Al Green-style groove and "Silver Bells" sounds great with its Tex-Mex arrangement. You've probably already heard most of these songs a billion times before, but Yoakam is able to put in enough twists to make them seem new again. He even throws in a couple of new Christmas-themed originals ("Come On Christmas" and "Santa Can't Stay") that aren't too cloying and are actually pretty good. And as always he has that awesome hick singing voice to die for. A fun one!
https://open.spotify.com/album/4hXCM8vqLJnlFcuHoH3zVP
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