Darius Rucker - Home For The Holidays (2014)

Tracklist

01. Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
02. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
03. What God Wants For Christmas
04. You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch
05. Baby, It's Cold Outside
06. I'll Be Home For Christmas
07. O Come, All Ye Faithful
08. Winter Wonderland
09. Candy Cane Christmas
10. Please Come Home For Christmas
11. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
12. White Christmas


Darius Rucker leaves his newly adopted country home behind for a bit of uptown swinging swagger on 2014's Home for the Holidays. This 12-track collection of standards - apart from "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" and "O Come, All Ye Faithful," they're all secular; apart from the nondescript original "What God Wants for Christmas," they're all well-known - is all delivered in the mock-Sinatra style that has come to suggest Christmas in popular culture. The production is clean and unfussy, sparkling just enough to suggest new-fallen snow but not enough to be tacky, and Rucker is amiable, perhaps a bit too digitally polished but possessing enough good charm to keep things moving at a nice clip. Consequently, Home for the Holidays winds up as a perfectly fine Christmas record, suited for those Rucker fans who have stuck with him from Hootie to R&B to country.

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