Winter Carols

Winter Carols
Studio album by Blackmore's Night
Released October 2006 (2006-10)
Recorded 2006
Genre Folk rock, christmas music
Length 42:38
Label AFM Records (Germany)[1]
Locomotive Music (US)
Producer Pat Regan
Blackmore's Night chronology
The Village Lanterne
(2006)		 Winter Carols
(2006)		 Secret Voyage
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic [2]
Metal Storm [3]

Winter Carols is a Christmas album by the British/American folk rock band Blackmore's Night, released in the United Kingdom on October, 2006 and in the United States on November 7, 2006. It was their sixth studio albums. The cover artwork for this album, painted by Karsten Topelmann, is an adaptation of a street in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany, in line with the band's heavy Renaissance influence. The same street is portraited in the cover of Blackmore's Night's second studio album, Under a Violet Moon. In the cover of "Winter Carols" the street is painted as winter time, whereas Under a Violet Moon's cover takes place on apparently a summer night.

On December 2006, Winter Carols entered at #7 on USA Billboard New Age Charts.[4]

The album won the New Age Reporter Lifestyle Music Award as the Best Holiday Album.[5]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Hark the Herald Angels Sing / Come All Ye Faithful" (traditional) – 3:50
  2. "I Saw Three Ships" (trad.) – 2:40
  3. "Winter (Basse Dance)" (Ritchie Blackmore) – 3:07
  4. "Ding Dong Merrily on High" (trad.) – 3:16
  5. "Ma-O-Tzur" (trad.) – 2:19
  6. "Good King Wenceslas" (trad.) – 4:44
  7. "Lord of the Dance / Simple Gifts" (Sydney Carter / Joseph Brackett) – 3:34
  8. "We Three Kings" (trad.) – 4:48
  9. "Wish You Were Here" (Leskelä Teijo) – 5:02 (from Shadow of the Moon)
  10. "Emmanuel" (trad.) – 3:32
  11. "Christmas Eve" (Blackmore, Candice Night)– 4:20
  12. "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" (trad.) – 1:21

Personnel

References

  1. ^ "AFM Records will release Blackmore`s Night winter album!". AFM-Records official website. 2006-09-15. http://www.afm-records.de/en/news/news-75.html. 
  2. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r930550
  3. ^ http://www.metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=3494
  4. ^ "Ritchie Blackmore Bio". The Official Ritchie Blackmore and Blackmores Night Website. http://www.ritchieblackmore.com/ritchie_bio.html. Retrieved 2011-03-16. 
  5. ^ "NAR 2006 LifeStyle Music Award Winners". ZoneMusicReporter. http://www.zonemusicreporter.com/admin/2006award_finalists.asp. Retrieved 2010-08-02. 

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