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Kathy Mattea's album for the Christmas season is unlike any country Christmas record ever released. For starters, she and producer Brent Maher commissioned original songs rather than taking them from the canon, or adapted obscure songs from the ages. Secondly, the band was formed around what served each song to make it feel as organic as possible. Strange instruments appear, such as the marimbas on "New Kid in Town," recorders and a high string guitar and recorders on "Christ Child Lullaby" (courtesy of Dougie MacLean and Jim Horn), and a full choir on the closing title track. This doesn't feel like any Christmas record you've ever heard before, either. It sounds like a well-crafted, gorgeously wrought folk/country/Celtic-flavored Kathy Mattea record. Give a listen to any of the above, or especially the haunted traditional song "Brightest and Best," completely reworked by Mattea and Maher. The guitars caress the open space between themselves and Mattea's voice, as the pipes and recorders float within. Likewise, listen to "Mary Did You Know," which is one of the most stunningly beautiful Christian folk songs written in decades (by Mark Lowry and Buddy Greene). But then, while songs can be many things, they cannot be given life without a singer, and on Good News, in Mattea's instrument, the grains of truth add up to something incalculable: high art.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
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Allen Shamblin, ComposerLyricist - Brent Maher, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kathy Mattea, MainArtist - Austin Cunningham, ComposerLyricist - Randy McCormick, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Don Potter, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Vicki Hampton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Farrell Morris, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Donna McElroy, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - MILLS LOGAN, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jim McKell, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Burns, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1993 Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gary Burr, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Lonnie Wilson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Brent Maher, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Keith Whitley, ComposerLyricist - Kathy Mattea, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Randy McCormick, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Don Potter, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Leuzinger, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Curly Putman, ComposerLyricist - Duncan Mullins, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Farrell Morris, Percussion, Marimba, AssociatedPerformer - MILLS LOGAN, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Don Kirby Cook, ComposerLyricist - Jim McKell, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1993 Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lonnie Wilson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Brent Maher, Producer, Mixer, Arranger, Engineer, Work Arranger, StudioPersonnel - Kathy Mattea, Arranger, Vocals, Work Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Thompson, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Randy McCormick, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Traditional, ComposerLyricist - Jim Horn, Recorder, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Darken, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Don Potter, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Duncan Mullins, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Farrell Morris, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - MILLS LOGAN, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jim McKell, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1993 Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Brent Maher, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kathy Mattea, MainArtist - Randy McCormick, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Lowry, ComposerLyricist - Buddy Greene, ComposerLyricist - Eric Darken, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Kenny Malone, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Don Potter, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Duncan Mullins, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - MILLS LOGAN, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jim McKell, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1993 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gary Burr, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Lonnie Wilson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Brent Maher, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kathy Mattea, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Peter McCann, ComposerLyricist - Randy McCormick, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Don Potter, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Duncan Mullins, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Farrell Morris, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - MILLS LOGAN, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jim McKell, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1993 Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Brent Maher, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kathy Mattea, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kye Fleming, ComposerLyricist - Randy McCormick, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Darken, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Don Potter, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Janis Ian, ComposerLyricist - MILLS LOGAN, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jim McKell, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1993 Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Brent Maher, Producer, Mixer, Arranger, Engineer, Work Arranger, StudioPersonnel - Kathy Mattea, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Traditional, ComposerLyricist - Don Potter, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Vicki Hampton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Farrell Morris, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Donna McElroy, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - MILLS LOGAN, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jim McKell, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Burns, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1993 Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gary Burr, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Lonnie Wilson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Brent Maher, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kathy Mattea, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Randy McCormick, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Earle, Author - Don Potter, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Leuzinger, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Duncan Mullins, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Farrell Morris, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - MILLS LOGAN, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jim McKell, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1993 Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Brent Maher, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, Co-Producer, StudioPersonnel - Kathy Mattea, Arranger, Vocals, Work Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Traditional, ComposerLyricist - Jim Horn, Recorder, AssociatedPerformer - Allen Reynolds, Producer, Co-Producer - Kenny Malone, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - MILLS LOGAN, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dougie MacLean, Arranger, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Work Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Jim McKell, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kenna Campbell, Translator - Catherine Styron, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1993 Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
George Teren, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Brent Maher, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kathy Mattea, MainArtist - Randy McCormick, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - ROB MATHES, ComposerLyricist - Gordon Mote, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - MILLS LOGAN, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jim McKell, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lori Westerman Brooks, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Phoebe Binkley, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Kimberly Mote, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Robert Binkley, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Rebecca Blackwell, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Diane Foust, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Marcus Rowe, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Yeaworth, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1993 Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Kathy Mattea's album for the Christmas season is unlike any country Christmas record ever released. For starters, she and producer Brent Maher commissioned original songs rather than taking them from the canon, or adapted obscure songs from the ages. Secondly, the band was formed around what served each song to make it feel as organic as possible. Strange instruments appear, such as the marimbas on "New Kid in Town," recorders and a high string guitar and recorders on "Christ Child Lullaby" (courtesy of Dougie MacLean and Jim Horn), and a full choir on the closing title track. This doesn't feel like any Christmas record you've ever heard before, either. It sounds like a well-crafted, gorgeously wrought folk/country/Celtic-flavored Kathy Mattea record. Give a listen to any of the above, or especially the haunted traditional song "Brightest and Best," completely reworked by Mattea and Maher. The guitars caress the open space between themselves and Mattea's voice, as the pipes and recorders float within. Likewise, listen to "Mary Did You Know," which is one of the most stunningly beautiful Christian folk songs written in decades (by Mark Lowry and Buddy Greene). But then, while songs can be many things, they cannot be given life without a singer, and on Good News, in Mattea's instrument, the grains of truth add up to something incalculable: high art.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:38:06
- Main artists: Kathy Mattea
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Island Mercury
- Genre: Ambient/New Age Christmas Music
© 1993 Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 1993 Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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