Amy Grant's Home for Christmas showcases her mellifluent vocal chops in a variety of settings and succeeds mightily. There's a sophisticated touch of Streisand in Grant's clear and bright timbre, but there's also a young tenderness and innocence there, as well, that captures peoples' hearts. Grant puts a batch of standards, more recent works by Carly Simon and David Foster, and her own songs through big but tasty orchestral swells, rock & roll reveries, acoustic pieces, and mild pop surroundings. Most surprising are Grant's two contributions (cowritten with Chris Eaton and Robert Marshal, respectively,) "Breath of Heaven/Mary's Song" and the powerful and humbling "Emmanuel, God with Us." Exquisitely produced and arranged, Home for Christmas is a highly rewarding mainstream Christmas masterpiece without flaw or pretense. --Martin Keller
Track | Artist |
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Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas | |
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year | |
Joy To The World/For Unto Us A Child Is Born | |
Breath Of Heaven (Mary's Song) | |
O Come All Ye Faithful | |
Grown-Up Christmas List | |
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree | |
Winter Wonderland | |
I'll Be Home for Christmas | |
The Night Before Christmas | |
Emmanuel, God With Us | |
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (Instrumental) |