Good News Kathy Mattea

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  • Release Date: 12/07/2000
  • Original Release: 1993
  • Sales Rank: 480
  • Label: MERCURY NASHVILLE
  • UPC: 731451805929

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Good News

1LISTENWhat a Wonderful Beginning 3:49
2LISTENThere's a New Kid in Town 4:04
3LISTENBrightest and Best (Star of the East) 3:33
4LISTENMary, Did You Know? 3:13
5LISTENThe Star 3:51
6LISTENEmmanuel 2:54
7LISTENSomebody Talkin' About Jesus 2:23
8LISTENNothing But a Child 4:08
9LISTENChrist Child's Lullaby 4:26
10LISTENGood News 5:38

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Editorial Reviews

Kathy Mattea's album for the Christmas season is unlike any country Christmas record ever released. For starters, she and producer Brent Maher commissioned original songs rather than taking them from the canon, or adapted obscure songs from the ages. Secondly, the band was formed around what served each song to make it feel as organic as possible. Strange instruments appear, such as the marimbas on "New Kid in Town," recorders and a high string guitar and recorders on "Christ Child Lullaby" (courtesy of Dougie MacLean and Jim Horn), and a full choir on the closing title track. This doesn't feel like any Christmas record you've ever heard before, either. It sounds like a well-crafted, gorgeously wrought folk/country/Celtic-flavored Kathy Mattea record. Give a listen to any of the above, or especially the haunted traditional song "Brightest and Best," completely reworked by Mattea and Maher. The guitars caress the open space between themselves and Mattea's voice, as the pipes and recorders float within. Likewise, listen to "Mary Did You Know," which is one of the most stunningly beautiful Christian folk songs written in decades (by Mark Lowry and Buddy Greene). But then, while songs can be many things, they cannot be given life without a singer, and on Good News, in Mattea's instrument, the grains of truth add up to something incalculable: high art. Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

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Good Newsby Anonymous

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November 21, 2003: THIS CD HAS BEEN MY FAVORITE CHRISTMAS CD SINCE I BOUGHT IT YEARS AGO. SONGS ARE STIRRING; MOVING. I STILL CANNOT LISTEN TO "MARY DID YOU KNOW" WITHOUT TEARING UP! "NOTHING BUT A CHILD" WILL REMIND YOU OF THE POTENTIAL IN ALL CHILDREN. THE SONGS ARE SO DIFFERENT FROM OTHER CHRISTIAN CHRISTMAS SONGS THAT THEY TRULY WILL HELP YOU PUT "CHRIST" BACK IN YOUR CHRISTMAS!

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November 19, 2003: Simply one of the best Christmas albums ever recorded. All new material; not a rehash of the usual Christmas fare we hear ad nauseum. Mattea's incredible rendition of "Mary, Did You Know?" is as glorious a four minutes as any ever committed to tape! Highly recommended.


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