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Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs of Christmas | 
| Artist: Mary Chapin Carpenter
Label: Universal Classics
Category: Music
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 572
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 48
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 431123
UPC: 601143112324
EAN: 0601143112324
ASIN: B001EOQTZG
Release Date: November 17, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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| Tracks:
| • | Once In Royal David's City | | • | Hot Buttered Rum | | • | Still Still Still | | • | On A Quiet Christmas Morn | | • | Come Darkness, Come Light | | • | Christmas Time In The City | | • | Candlelight Carol | | • | The Longest Night Of The Year | | • | Thanksgiving Song | | • | Bells Are Ringing | | • | Christmas Carol | | • | Children, Go Where I Send Thee |
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| Customer Reviews:
 All Darkness - No Light December 2, 2008
Disappointing in the extreme.I am an MCC fan but I'm afraid that I find the music on this CD boring.In fact at times I was left wondering whether the tracks had actually changed so alike one another do they sound.
I realise that not all Christmas songs need to be of the 'Jingle Bells' variety but interspersing the occasional 'lighter' track among the slow,nay dreary ones,wouldn't go amiss.
 Beautiful, thoughtful Christmas album - Recommended November 19, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I haven't been a particular fan of Mary Chapin Carpenter in the past but this album of Christmas songs is a real gem. It is really different to your usual "Jingle Bells" and "White Christmas" festive fare, although there are traditional songs in this collection such as the lovely "Once in Royal David's City" which opens the album, and the absolutely gorgeous performance of "Children Go Where I Send Thee". The rest of the material is new (at least to me, although I understand that a couple of tracks were included on an earlier Mary Chapin Carpenter album)and it is wonderful. The lyrics are thoughtful and really do get to the heart of what Christmas is like (and what it should be about) in 2008. Some of these reflect the spiritual side of Christmas, and, cleverly at the same time, also mirror the hustle and bustle of a modern Christmas in a western industrialised nation ("Christmas Time in the City" is wonderful!) and there is a touch of Christmas romance too. The performances by Chapin Carpenter are really superb, that wonderful deep alto voice really putting meaning and wonderful expression into every note. The musical accompaniment is quite simple country fare, nothing techno here, and it suits the material perfectly.
If you are looking for some Christmas music but want something a bit more reflective, and just a bit different, then you really should buy this album straight away. There is proper Christmas feeling here but it is done with real class and subtlety. I haven't been able to stop playing it since I got it and I have a feeling it will be revisted regularly throughout the year and not just at Christmas.
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