5 Chinese Brothers, A Window Shopper's Christmas - 40m 23s

Tracks & Durations

1. Make The Rafters Ring	3:07
2. Rockin' In The Manger	3:19
3. And To All A Good Night	3:33
4. Making Angels In The Sand	2:48
5. Honky Tonk Christmas	3:02
6. Missing Miss December	3:14
7. Dear Santa	3:15
8. Age-Old Story	2:50
9. Christmas On Interstate 80	3:14
10. The Fruitcake Song	4:02
11. O Little Town Of Bethlehem	1:15
12. Dept. Store Santa Claus Strike	3:58
13. Christmas In Manhattan	2:39

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Review

This is not your typical Christmas album. 5 Chinese Brothers adopt a variety of generic folk, country, and rock & roll song styles and then write new, gently comic, Christmas-themed lyrics over them. For example, "Dept. Store Santa Claus Strike" borrows the talking-blues folk song structure most familiar from Woody Guthrie's "Pretty Boy Floyd" for a tale of Santa's management-labor dispute, while "The Fruitcake Song" borrows the shave-and-a-haircut rhythm of "Bo Diddley" to discuss the persistence of that most inedible of Christmas foods, and "Missing Miss December" is a rock & roll tune about a centerfold. The result is a likable collection that will serve as a change-of-pace from those Bing Crosby and Mannheim Steamroller records during the holiday season. — William Ruhlmann

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