This Christmas (Borders) Aretha Franklin

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  • Release Date: 10/13/2009
  • Original Release: 2008
  • Sales Rank: 659
  • Label: RHINO / WEA
  • UPC: 643027817123
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This Christmas (Borders)

1LISTENAngels We Have Heard on High 5:25
2LISTENThis Christmas / Edward Franklin 5:22
3LISTENMy Grown-Up Christmas List 5:14
4LISTENThe Lord Will Make a Way 5:43
5LISTENSilent Night 5:06
6LISTENAve Maria 4:56
7LISTENChristmas Ain't Christmas (Without the One You Love) 3:52
8LISTEN14 Angels 2:08
9LISTENOne Night with the King 6:08
10LISTENHark! The Herald Angels Sing 5:24
11LISTEN'Twas the Night Before Christmas 1:51

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The obvious title here would have been Wreatha Now, but Aretha opted to follow in the footsteps of at least 20 other artists by going with This Christmas as the title of her first Christmas album. Apart from the Donny Hathaway/Nadine McKinnor-written title track, a duet with her son Edward that is both sweet and playful (at one point, Aretha interjects, "Eddie, you mustn't upstage mom with those high notes"), the disc is filled mostly with the spiritual and relatively serious side of holiday material. The likes of "Silent Night," "Ave Maria," "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," and "Angels We Have Heard on High" are given the kind of treatment only Aretha could grant, though it should be noted that there are moments where you might feel stuck inside the Aretha Melismatorium. It's not all reverence and reflection: best of all is a reading of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" that can only be termed "personalized." Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

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