Blackmore's Night
Winter Carols

February 2007
Released: 2006, AFM Records/Sound Pollution
Rating: 2.0/5
Reviewer: Anders Sandvall

This Christmas album by Ritchie Blackmore and his wife Candice Night is the newest release from Blackmore’s Night. I’m pretty sure that most of you already know what kind of music Blackmore’s Night plays, so lets skip that.



On WINTER CAROLS the band interprets different well-known Christmas songs, and they have definitely made the songs sound like their own, but that’s not hard when you have such a special musical style. Candice Night sings the lead part and is backed up by Lady Madeline and Lady Nancy on harmony vocals. The music is beautiful and you get the Christmas feeling, but it isn’t fun to listen to the album for any long period of time.



Altogether, the album is 45 minutes and 12 tracks long, but I unfortunately can’t find any favorite track. After all, the songs are Christmas covers in folk music form; if I wanted to hear proper carols I’d listen to the originals.



It’s a nice album that gets you somewhat into the holiday mood, but on a daily basis the album gets boring. I hope that Mr. Blackmore wakes up and starts playing hard rock again. That would be a much better Christmas gift than WINTER CAROLS.



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