Sarah McLachlan is my all time favourite singer. There was a time in my life, when I felt that I could never relate to a female singer, since I was a guy! Ok, I was dumb enough to think that. I count many ladies among my collection and Sarah is at the top of that list. She has some of the most beautiful songs, with deep, personal lyrics that can touch your soul and pull at your heart strings. And her voice – what a voice! People call her music goth-pop or gothic pop-rock, but I just call it pure Sarah. In 2006, she came out with Wintersong a Grammy nominated holiday album released in October 2006. It was produced by longtime collaborator Pierre Marchand and includes contributions from bassist Jim Creeggan of the Barenaked Ladies. The album also includes a duet with Jazz musician Diana Krall.
The album debuted @ #42 on the Billboard charts, selling about 20,000 in its first week. It later peaked @ #7 and has so far sold 759,162 copies in the US & over 200,000 copies in Canada. World wide sales are over a million.
Here are the tracks listed:
- “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” (John Lennon, Yoko Ono)
- “What Child Is This (Greensleeves)” (William Chatterton Dix)
- “River” (Joni Mitchell)
- “Wintersong” (Sarah McLachlan)
- “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” (Walter Kent, Kim Gannon)
- “O Little Town of Bethlehem” (Phillips Brooks, Lewis Redner)
- “The First Noel / Mary Mary” (Traditional)
- “Silent Night” (Josef Mohr, Franz X. Gruber)
- “Song for a Winter’s Night” (Gordon Lightfoot)
- “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane)
- “In the Bleak Mid Winter” (Traditional)
- “Christmas Time Is Here” featuring Diana Krall (Vince Guaraldi)
Appropriate for this time of year!
I love this album… got it last year and it’s not only for christmas listening either ;-) My fav song is “River” – sooo beautiful.
Been a huge fan of Sarah since “Possession”. Go Sarah, go!
You got that right Technodoll. She is the best singer in the world.