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EUR CD REVIEW: 'This Christmas Aretha' - Aretha Franklin (DNI Records)
In royal fashion, its grand billboard placement in the middle of Time Square instantly stamps the album a collector’s item.
“This Christmas Aretha” is a personable project revealing a touch of Franklin’s sense of humor that features an eclectic collection of classic, Gospel and R&B-driven gems, among them “Christmas Just Ain’t Christmas (Without the One You Love)," “Grown-up Christmas List,” and “Silent Night.”
Franklin’s spellbinding interpretation of the evergreen “Ave Maria” will bring tears to your eyes with every crescendo of the harp and orchestra accompaniment and passionate vibrato of each milky phrase she sings. The unprecedented album is worth buying for this performance alone. That’s if you can get past pressing repeat on track #1 “Angels We Have Heard on High.”
Franklin’s voice is pure liquid soul as it guides a majestic choir and orchestra to hevenly heights. In the intro to track #2 she answers a phone call that she has to rush off to save her Christmas dinner (can’t let that pot of Greens burn!) She then breaks into a jammin’ jazz-forward duet with her vocally talented son Eddie on Donnie Hathaway’s “This Christmas.”
On the opposite end of seasonal standards, the daughter of the late Rev. C.L. Franklin takes us to church with her melodically gutteral confession of God's faithfulness on the "The Lord Will Make A Way Somehow" an encouraging traditonal gospel tune.
While the spirit clearly impacts Franklin on the latter, the Queen completely lets herself go as she covers “One Night with the King” (the theme song from the 2006 movie of the same time), a song about knowing God intimately.
But, even on a Christmas CD the famously heart-broken, hard-lovin’ legend couldn't resist mentioning man problems, as evidenced on the final cut, a grown up, satirical spoken word adaptation of "‘Twas the Night Before Christmas." Otherwise, Aretha delivers a high-spirited, passionate and happy reflection on the most wonderful time of the year.
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