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Classic Christmas Album Review: Various Artists | Favoured Nations Acoustic Christmas

This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


Guitar hero and label owner Steve Vai plays Santa, letting his roster of fretboard elves deliver a sleighload of hand-picked tidings.

CHESTNUTS ROASTED: The Dillengers rock up Run Rudolph Run; Mimi Fox jazzes up Winter Wonderland.

YULE LOVE: The atmospheric chimes of Adrian Legg’s Jingle Bells; Greg Koch’s neo-blues slide of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.

YULE WISH: That big boss man Vai took a turn at the amp.