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List Price: $13.94 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 23
Released: October 13, 2009 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Christmas In the Heart Track Listing:
1. Here Comes Santa Claus
2. Do You Hear What I Hear?
3. Winter Wonderland
4. Hark The Herald Angels Sing
5. I'll Be Home For Christmas
6. Little Drummer Boy
7. The Christmas Blues
8. O' Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)
9. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
10. Must Be Santa
11. Silver Bells
12. The First Noel
13. Christmas Island
14. The Christmas Song
15. O' Little Town Of Bethlehem
Editorial Review:
2009 holiday release, the first Christmas album from the legendaryFolk/Rock singer/songwriter. Christmas In The Heart is Dylan's 47th album and follows the worldwide success of his album Together Through Life. In a commitment to ending hunger, all of Bob Dylan's U.S. current and future royalties from sales of Christmas In The Heart will be donated in perpetuity to Feeding America, guaranteeing that more than four million meals will be provided to over 1.4 million people in need in this country during this year's holiday season. 15 tracks including 'Here Comes Santa Claus', 'Winter Wonderland', 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' and many others.
Christmas In the Heart Reviews:
A Bewildering Detour 
2009-12-23 - It is difficult to understand why Dylan elected to records these songs. I have been a fan of Dylan for many years and am glad to recognize that he is unchallengably one of the greatest, and arguably the greatest song writer of our time. But why these Christimas songs? Most of the songs are unremarkable saccharine dittys. Those who actually like (this) kind of music are extremely unlikely to be Dylan fans; Dylan fans are for the most part likely to be (as I am) merely bewildered by these selections. I don't believe Dylan intended some sort of sly irony or subtle parody in creating this record. The only possible explanation I can summon is that Dylan must have intended to come up with something wholly unexpected and atypical--if that is the case, then he has succeeded in evoking novelty if nothing else.
Laughing all the way! 
2009-12-23 - This album does make one laugh. I wish someone could have provided Bob with some assistance on how to pronounce the Latin in Adeste Fideles. It's pretty awful!
An Irony Free Glimpse Into Christmases Past 
2009-12-23 - When I 1st heard about this album, I thought it was a joke. But if there is any irony here, it is in the context and the contrast to our so-called modern life because there is absolutely none in the performances.
This is the sound of our country before big box stores, on-line flame-fests, sub-prime mortgages, and chemical home run kings. It sounds like a record your parents or grandparents, now long gone, would put in the stack on the turntable on a Christmas afternoon of tinsel and crumbled wrapping paper.
If your heart is open, you will find tears and smiles in equal measures here.
Dylan has obviously shown greater genius elsewhere but this may be the album you will return to more than any others. If life his shown you enough for you to know that it is beautiful, but cruelly short, just think how this album will make you feel, and what a gift that will be, 10, 15, 20 years from now
Bob Dylan shamelessly goes for the Christmas bucks!
2009-12-23 - Awful - sounds like he's croaking though the broken end of a Coke bottle!
Why did he do it, he must be worth a billion bucks by now?
Guess there are limits to genius after all.
"Who laughs like this? Ho! Ho! Ho!"
2009-12-22 - Who'd have thought it? Believe it or not, 2 years before its release, I was jokingly thinking "What would a Christmas album by Bob Dylan sound like?" My idea was nothing like this. And that's a good thing, at least for me. But I digress.
Bob opens with "Here Comes Santa Claus" with a sweet sounding glockenspiel. Next is "Do You Hear What I Hear?" with some pleasant violin melody. Bob has some fine harmony backups, especially on "Oh Come All Ye Faithful." It almost sounds like the Andrews Sisters are backing him up! "Christmas Blues" sounds more like something you'd expect from Mr. Zimmerman, with some bluesy harmonica. If you're having some hard times at Christmas, it can almost bring a tear to your eye, as could his rendition of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas." "Must Be Santa" is like a rock and roll polka, complete with an accordian arrangement, a Mitch Miller-style chorus and reindeer named after ex-Presidents! Thanks, Bob, and we hope you have a merry Christmas, too!
