Our Review
Just call me a sucker for an acoustic slide guitar doing Silver Bells to a cowboy beat, with Arlo Guthrie strumming backup twelve string.
Ed Gerhart can make an awful lot of Christmas music come pouring out of his guitar. And all of the seasonal mood music he pours out on Christmas is inspiring. It reminds me of a romantic evening spent beside a warm fire with a cup of Cadbury's drinking chocolate, my love curled up beside me, and the cold north wind howling outside.
In addition to some well-known carols, Gerhard chose to include tasteful renderings of Variations on Pachelbel's Canon and A Mighty Fortress is Our God. I thought their inclusion gave the record a touch of surprise, always welcome in a Christmas set.
I don't know what I would do if I had an Ed Gerhard. Probably the same thing Virtue Records has him doing: playing his heart out on classic Christmas favorites.
--Richard Banks
(Reviewed in 1998)
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Ed Gerhard
Christmas
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Label: Virtue
Genre: Classical
Release: 1991
Track List
| Song Title |
|---|
| It Came Upon a Midnight Clear |
| Good King Wenceslas |
| O Come, All Ye Faithful |
| Coventry Carol |
| O Tannenbaum |
| What Child Is This? |
| Silver Bells |
| Away in a Manger |
| We Three Kings |
| Carol of the Bells |
| O Holy Night |
| A Mighty Fortress is our God |
| Variations on Pachelbel's Canon |
| Silent Night |