I recorded a Christmas album. This is a Christmas album that is inspired by my love of acoustic music and my years of playing cello with Kemper Crabb. The tracks represent my favorite Christmas songs played the way I have always wanted to hear them. Simple, singable, mostly upbeat with a bit of light beauty thrown in to add some depth. I sang all the parts, and used the instruments that I had laying around the house: acoustic guitar, cello, doumbek, udu, sitar and other various instruments. I hope you like it.
Six of the songs were included on a CrossPoint CD giveaway, part of our “I Am Santa” program. We are in the process of giving away thousands of these CDs, which is a very cool thing. There are four additional tracks on the actual album, including a new song called “I Will Be Christmas” that I have written in conjuction with our Christmas series “I Am Christmas.”
It may be a bit of a shameless appeal to commerce, but you can listen to samples and purchase the album here:
Click here for more information. Merry Christmas.
December 16th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
This is a review by a guy named Rick Higginson from my message board:
I just finished listening to the entire album. The traditional Christmas songs are given an upbeat, contemporary arrangement without losing the essence of their original sounds. I prefer when traditional songs are given the artist’s style and signature, without having to be completely rewritten until there are only snippets of the original left, and Frank has done a nice job of this. Frank’s original composition for the collection, I Will Be Christmas, concludes the set nicely. I like it much better than many of the original Christmas songs written by some of the “big name” artists out there, both secular and Christian.
While I may not have the best ears, either from a physiological standpoint or an audiophile standpoint, the collection had the sound of a professional recording. The vocals and instrumentals are clean and balanced, and the sound level consistent. My impression from Frank’s post here is that he produced this collection himself, but he didn’t cut corners on the quality. I’ve bought albums from the big, mainstream music publishers before that weren’t as well-done as this one.
It’s great knowing, as well, that Frank believes what he’s singing. This isn’t one of those Christmas albums from a secular artist that barely acknowledges God the rest of the year, but figures singing about God and Jesus at Christmas is a good business move.
Well worth the ten bucks. I plan on posting the link to Being Christmas on some of the other sites I visit.