1 Winter Wonderland featuring Chris Botti
2 Go Tell It On The Mountain
3 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
4 Jingle Bells
5 Baby, It's Cold Outside featuring Natalie Cole
6 River
7 Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
8 The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) Featuring Toots Theilemans
9 Some Children See Him
10 Who Comes This Night
11 In The Bleak Midwinter
12 Auld Lang Syne

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James Taylor Christmas CD is great

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: Great music to "get in the spirit" of Christmas. The pleasant, relaxing voice of James Taylor singing everyone's favorite holiday songs, in his own great style. *****CD

Uninspired

 Album Rating: (2 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: A long time James Taylor fan - but there is a certain cheese factor about these arrangements that makes them truly difficult to listen to.
Do look elsewhere.

Not a bad track on the entire CD . . . .

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: I'm a huge Christmas music fan. 32 CDs in my collection . . . and still buy a new one each year. The day after Thanksgiving I just put them on multi-disc player suffle and let play until December 26th. [The time-frame is family member enforced :( ]

Like a child, I like to open and play the new Christmas CD sans any pre-research or opinion reading. I don't want to be prejudiced. Sometimes they are a total bust/disappointment (i.e., Mary Chapin-Carpenter's Come Darkness, Come Light) and sometimes they are a joyful, not-a-bad-track-on-the-entire-CD, full-out pleasure to listen to again and again.

That's how I feel about the James Taylor at Christmas CD -- two years running. It's wonderful in song selection, arrangement, production, and James and guests are in fine voice. You can acutally hear in their voices that they enjoyed making this music -- at least that's how it sounds to me. Whether you have a large or small Christmas music collection, this one is worth adding.

Not the best...

 Album Rating: (3 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: I had just bought October Road which I totally love, so I thought why not try his Christmas CD. Not so hot! I'd say four or five of the songs are pretty good, but the others are average or less than average. If I had to buy another Christmas CD I think I'd go with Bing or Nate.

on second thought.....it's wonderful!

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: I too was slightly unmoved with Jimmy T's Christmas offering initially. I expected something somehow more 'personal' or 'special'. That was when it was first released. The following year I put it on and...shabang...it sparkled to high heaven and I've loved it ever since! So warm, so happy, so rich with little sprinkles of levity. He actually makes me look forward to hearing Jingle Bells, a Christmas song that out of his hands is worn to threads. It seems this Christmas work is a 'Goldielocks Delight' - not too much, not too little, but just right.