Track Listing 1. Once In Royal David's City 2. Hot Buttered Rum 3. Still, Still, Still 4. On a Quiet Christmas Morn 5. Come Darkness, Come Light 6. Christmas Time In the City 7. Candlelight Carol 8. Longest Night of the Year, The 9. Thanksgiving Song 10. Bells Are Rining 11. Christmas Carol 12. Children, Go Where I Send Thee
| Details | | Producer: | John Jennings, Mary Chapin Carpenter | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel: Mary Chapin Carpenter (vocals, acoustic guitar); John Jennings (guitars, accordion, piano, drums, percussion); John Carroll (piano). Audio Mixer: John Jennings. Many artists, when faced with the task of doing a Christmas album, merely knock out a selection of familiar pop tunes and perhaps a hymn or two and call it at that. Mary-Chapin Carpenter's COME DARKNESS, COME LIGHT: TWELVE SONGS OF CHRISTMAS is something entirely different: a largely self-written song cycle capturing several different aspects of the holiday season with grace, wit, and feeling. Carpenter, always a songwriter of emotional complexity and novelistic detail, invests these 12 songs with both delicacy and strength.
Editorial Reviews This is an intimate, reflective album....There is darkness and light here, but always joy behind the sadness, connection behind the separateness, hope on the other side of disconnection. Dirty Linen
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