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About Christmas Means Love
Amazon.com When it comes to yuletide albums, an artist has maybe three choices as to how to proceed: 1) You can write your own new songs. 2) You can try really hard to put your own spin on these popular chestnuts by doing radically different arrangements or recording them all in a death-metal polka style because no one else has made a death-metal polka holiday release. 3) Or you can just do the songs straight-ahead already, as best you can, and hope that you measure up to the greats who've done those songs before you. For Joan Osborne's first holiday record, the full-throated singer-songwriter admirably (and smartly) uses all three approaches at once. Osborne uses a wide variety of arrangements and styles to tackle these tunes. There are ribald, bluesy arrangements ("What Do Bad Girls Get?"), songs with gospel elements (the title track), and stripped-down, piano-driven numbers ("Silent Night") that really showcase her vocal strengths. Note: This 2007 re-issue of Osborne's 2005 album of the same name has all the same songs; it simply omits the spoken word introduction. --Mike McGonigal
