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Jesse Colin Young hasn’t been worth paying attention to since the early Seventies, and Songs for Christmas won’t change that. While the idea of “White Christmas” as a tune from a breezy island has potential, the rest is folk-rock dreck.
This article appears in December 24 • 2004.
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