A Mandolin Christmas Podcast

Karen and I are thrilled to present to you the 3rd in our series of acoustic holiday albums:

A Mandolin Christmas, Vol. 2  

Buy it at AMandolinChristmas.com

Read episode notes here:

https://christmassongsmusicandcarols.blogspot.com/2018/11/o-holy-night-from-new-mandolin.html

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We’d like to invite you to let our record shine its light in your holiday atmosphere.  It’s a great accompaniment to preparing holiday meals, visiting with friends and family.

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For every 1 paragraph or more positive review of our new album, we will donate $1 to Strings Attached Cares up to $1000.00

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Liner notes

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A jazz musician, a folk artist, 20 fingers pulling 14 strings & 19 ancient melodies that time has polished.

A Mandolin Christmas

 

    Deep in the throes of the hottest summer on record in Austin,  TX,

Karen Mal and Will Taylor decided to make a Christmas album. It was a

112-degree "Silent Night" in their un-airconditioned recording studio in

August. Even the cat was sweating.      The couple had collaborated on

many musical projects; his, hers, and their ensemble's, but a "Mandolin

Christmas" is purely a duet in every sense of the word.  It's a dance

between two partners: the mandolin and the classical guitar.  And that's

it.  Karen and Will are perhaps better-known as vocalist and violinist,

respectively, but as the tracks blossomed, the two instruments just

didn't seem to want any company. There's a simple elegance in the

combination that makes for a classic record.      "A Mandolin Christmas"

is also a duet between traditional folk music and jazz.  The music

includes pristine old-style classical arrangements, and also subtle and

playful jazz harmonizations, weaving around familiar melodies that sound

like home.   You can practically smell the sugar cookies coming out of

the oven, see the kitchen windows steaming up.       Even the packaging

is a duet. Karen staged the shots in their vegetable garden. That's a

real Calabacita squash with the bow on it. (we ate it for Thanksgiving)

Will took the photos and fit everything into the artwork templates.     

If you like Christmas music even a little, you're going to love this

album. You're going to love it again when you dig it out next year, and

again and again, every holiday season.