Brian Setzer Orchestra - Boogie Woogie Christmas [LP] (White Vinyl, download)

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Brian Setzer Orchestra - Boogie Woogie Christmas [LP] (White Vinyl, download) Brian Setzer Orchestra - Boogie Woogie Christmas [LP] (White Vinyl, download)

Snow-White Vinyl LP!
First Time On Vinyl!

The original holiday release from The Brian Setzer Orchestra is now released on vinyl for the first time - and on Snow-White Vinyl.

Iconic guitarist, songwriter, vocalist and 3-time Grammy-award-winner, is a "Musician's Musician" credited with continually taking chances with innovative and daring musical styles, while single-handedly resurrecting two forgotten genres of music (rockabilly in the ‘80's and swing in the '90's). Along the way, he has scored chart-topping hits, sold 13 million records and received the Orville H. Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award throughout his decorated career as founder/leader of the Stray Cats, his 18-piece Brian Setzer Orchestra, and as a solo artist.

"Brian Setzer takes his horn-fueled big band on a sleigh ride into Christmas/holiday music with generally impressive results. Meshing his rockabilly guitar solos with brassy charts and a lounge/Vegas sensibility that is part tribute and part retro characterization, Setzer dusts off and polishes up obscure nuggets like Kay Starr's "(Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With the Bag" and Lionel Hampton's swinging "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus." He rocks up played-out chestnuts "Winter Wonderland" and "Jingle Bells," slightly altering the latter's lyrics to, "Oh what fun it is to ride in a '57 Chevrolet." Elvis' "Blue Christmas" succeeds despite, or maybe because of, its obvious inclusion, narrowly missing a parody of the original due to Setzer's reverb-heavy guitar solo. A rough, blues-heavy "Santa Claus Is Back in Town" successfully kicks the tune into classic urban R&B territory, with the bandleader's guitar getting down and dirty and the horns blasting away like Doc Severinsen's orchestra. Ann Margaret sounds a little tentative playing the sultry sex kitten next to Setzer's slick Bobby Darin on a nevertheless frisky duet romp through "Baby It's Cold Outside." But the album's obvious highlight is an intricately rearranged, instrumental big band blowout of "The Nutcracker Suite," originally written for Les Brown's orchestra in the '50s. It displays the group's stop-on-a-dime chops and swings like mad. A 30-piece choir backs Setzer doing his best Presley mannerisms on a smarmy "O Holy Night" and closes the album on a serious note with a prayerful "The Amens."" - allmusic.com, Hal Horowitz

Features:
• Snow-White Vinyl LP
• First time on vinyl
• Includes limited time download card

Selections:
Side A:
1. Jingle Bells
2. Boogie Woogie Santa Claus
3. Winter Wonderland
4. Blue Christmas
5. Santa Claus is Back in Town
6. Baby it's Cold Outside (with Ann Margaret)
7. The Nutcracker Suite
Side B:
1. (Everybody's Waitin' for) The Man With the Bag
2. Sleigh Ride
3. Run Rudolph Run
4. Cactus Christmas
5. So They Say It's Christmas
6. O Holy Night
7. The Amens Listing and template services provided by inkFrog Open.

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