It’s never too early to get into the holiday spirit. Linda Ronstadt’s classic album A Merry Little Christmas will be released on vinyl for the first time ever along with a CD re-release on October 27.
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The album was originally released in October 2000 and became the best-selling Christmas album of that year. This season, there will be three yuletide colored vinyl versions of A Merry Little Christmas available to purchase: metallic silver, evergreen, and poinsettia red (a Barnes & Noble exclusive). The CD is available to purchase here.
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A Merry Little Christmas was recorded at Jim Brady Studios in Tucson, at Recital Halls at the University of Arizona, at Oceanway Nashville, and at Capitol Records Studios in Los Angeles. Album production credits go to John Boylan and George Massenburg.
The album features 14 Christmastime classics, including “The Christmas Song,” “White Christmas,” “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” “Away in a Manger,” “Silent Night,” “River,” and more.
In September, Ronstadt’s Canciones de mi Padre arrived on vinyl for the first time since the album’s initial release in 1987, along with a newly remastered CD version of that album as well. The press release reports it was led by musical director/bandleader Rubén Fuentes and backed by four mariachi bands: Mariachi Vargas De Tecalitlán, Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Mariachi Los Galleros de Pedro Rey, and Mariachi Sol de México de José Hernández.
In an interview with DIG! published in July, Ronstadt called Billie Holiday one of her biggest influences. “My dad bought lots of records home. I remember being enchanted by Billie Holiday,” she said. “She invented pop music and the things we all later did. She made music so intimate. She and Frank Sinatra are the two biggest influences on popular singing in the 20th century. I tried to do what they did.”
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