I was recently reminded of a very sweet review I received for my original holiday album ‘Home Sweet Christmas’ from Music Bin, an Italian music blog. 🎄 Realizing I neglected to share it in December, I thought today would make for a nice little Flashback Friday! ❄️🎁
Below are some translated excerpts... Full review HERE. (album available on Spotify if you need a dose of some Christmas-in-March spirit) 🎶☃️ Grazie Music Bin! ❤️
“…I (re)discovered this album by songwriter Katie Garibaldi, from San Francisco, but with at least a quarter of our own blood...a contemporary celebration along brilliant country/rock lines and folk/pop, intrinsically gospel in its most spiritual moments, such as, one above all, the splendid ballad Wonderful Mother Mary, with a wide melodic breath.
The rich expressive range of Katie Garibaldi's singing, as well as that of the predominantly acoustic instrumental voices, to which pedal steel and keyboards are added, Home Sweet Christmas already summarizes in the title the significant figure of Christmas according to the author, a joyful family embrace and passionate. So that even the distance, the topical theme of the Christmas songs launched in 1943 by Bing Crosby, becomes here an opportunity to renew emotional ties and belonging.
Echoes of Patsy Cline in the sweet nostalgia of Unhappy Holiday, voiced by the sunny country pop lightness of These Are The Times I Love The Most (California Christmas)...”
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~Katie
