B.B. King

Holiday Platters

Reviewed by Raoul Hernandez, Fri., Dec. 21, 2001

B.B. King

A Christmas Celebration of Hope (MCA) Given the many decades of good cheer B.B. King has spread around the globe, the King of the Blues might as well be Santa Claus. Turning opener "Please Come Home for Christmas" and guitar/organ instrumental stocking stuffer "I'll Be Home for Christmas" into warm, nuzzly bedtime stories, King takes to the holiday classic like Kalhua to eggnog. That his first ever Xmas LP loses the twinkle in its eye soon after the winking of "Back Door Santa" is indeed blues inducing. Like Santa falling off your roof.

More in This Issue
Asylum Street Spankers

A Christmas Spanking

Zero Skills Inc.

Christmassacre

Slaid Cleaves

Holiday Sampler

Albert & Gage

One More Christmas

Dale Watson

Christmas Time in Texas

Mark Rubin Presents Hill Country Hannukah

Mark Rubin Presents Hill Country Hannukah

Blue Xmas

Blue Xmas

The Campbell Brothers

Sacred Steel for the Holidays
Tommy Sands

To Shorten the Winter: An Irish Christmas

Leon Redbone

Christmas Island

Leon Russell

Hymns of Christmas

.38 Special

A Wild-Eyed Christmas Night

The Big 80's Christmas

The Big 80's Christmas

They Might Be Giants

Holidayland!

Barbra Streisand

Christmas Memories

A Motown Christmas, the Temptations

A Motown Christmas

Beat Box

8 Days of Christmas

A note to readers: Bold and uncensored, The Austin Chronicle has been Austin’s independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the community’s political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene. Now more than ever, we need your support to continue supplying Austin with independent, free press. If real news is important to you, please consider making a donation of $5, $10 or whatever you can afford, to help keep our journalism on stands.

Support the Chronicle

More Music Reviews