Rodney Carrington's "Make It Christmas" CD will make your holidays last!

No the holidays are not over yet! I just received Rodney Carrington's Christmas CD and you will want one in your hot little hands to add to your holiday music repertoire for the coming years!

Rodney Carrington is an amazing multi-talent! Comedian, actor, writer, and add singer to his gifts. You will never feel the same about Christmas music again! "Make It Christmas" reveals Rodney's serious side and evokes the true emotions of Christmas with such poignancy you will find yourself one minute basking in the warm and fuzzy, and the next find your body buzzing with goosebumps while your eyes sting with the welling of tears. What inspired this seemingly complete shift from Carrington's usual humour filled music? Rodney has been told countless times he has a great voice. Rodney says, "People hear my funny songs and always say that I have a great voice. They ask me why I don’t do some serious music. So, this record ain't got a funny song on it. It's a big-band, Frank Sinatra-type Christmas record; something I've always wanted to do.”

Though it is a crooning, big band style record it seems to be peppered with a little country-pop and a lot of holiday emotion! This is a strong record but I can definitely pick favourites based on personal preference! I love to feel, and look forward to the welling-up of strong emotions inspirational holiday music can awaken. "Camouflage And Christmas Lights", a heart-rending song embodying the experience of troops deployed overseas, away from family and traditional holiday celebration is a song which made me feel a depth and wealth of sentiment. I wept!

A friend's husband was serving in Afghanistan a couple years ago and this song reminds me of her experience, waiting, raising her children alone, observing holidays without her husband.

Watch this You Tube video set to "Camouflage And Christmas Lights" and tell me you wept no tears! This song spoke to many this Christmas and was a meaningful Christmas gift to military families!


Carrington's "Make It Christmas" is the perfect mix of traditional classics such as "White Christmas", "Winter Wonderland", and "Oh Holy Night", and new timely songs you'll love! My other favourites on this album David Foster's "Grown Up Christmas Wish", "Mary Did You Know", and "Presence of Love" for the heartfelt and "The Presents Under the Tree (Better Be For Me)" for a little humour and fun! Yes, practically the whole album! I reiterate this is an amazingly powerful album and Rodney Carrington may just have permanently prevented himself from being pigeon-holed as comedian alone!

Make It Christmas all over again purchase Rodney Carrington's "Make It Christmas" now. Enter to win a copy of "Make It Christmas" here at Northern Mama an amazing gift for yourself or someone you love!
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