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Ginny Owens' first Christmas album is a glorious peace offering wrapped in tender, thoughtful musicality. Eclectic, rich, and wonderful, it stuns with its simple beauty.
“Bring Us Peace” offers a mix of unique originals and familiar tunes that range in style from pop to classical, each bathed in intimacy and ambiance. Owens co-produced “Bring Us Peace” with long-time friends and tour companions, bassist Tony Lucido and drummer Will Sayles, and together the trio took recording risks that paid off in spades on this distinctive collection. Owens turns her bluesy soul loose on the quiet acoustic opener, her own “Christmas All the Time,” setting a tone for straightforward soul all the way through. Her languid vocals on “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” come across as brave and beautiful over the simple piano support. You’ll love the original “Nothin for Christmas,” all bluesy sass and attitude. You gotta love a Christmas album with a mean ex-boyfriend song. Owens arranged the three-part harmonies of Gounod’s “Ave Maria,” the hushed vocals giving the track an elegant sense of the sacred. Take note of the grace notes of beauty scattered lavishly throughout “Bring Us Peace,” including the flawlessly restrained drums of “The Christmas Song,” the earthy electric touches of “Nothin for Christmas,” and the emotive cello of “This is Christmas.” Owens vocals move from playful to angelic with ease, always dripping with her signature purity of tone. But the album’s standout track has to be the glorious closer, “O Come, O Come Emanuel.” The arrangement of the majestic strings is breath-takingly lovely, and Owens’ vocals drip with reverence on this very moving rendition of the classic carol. At six and a half minutes, the track takes you to a place of quiet worship and thoughtfulness, and is the perfect closer to “Bring Us Peace,” an outstanding Christmas project from Ginny Owens, herself a one-of-a-kind artist and believer. And as if the album’s powerful beauty wasn’t enough reason, fifty percent of the net profits of “Bring Us Peace” will be used to support The Fingerprint Initiative, a service-oriented, non-profit organization founded by Owens nearly two years ago.
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