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Ben Keith and friends - Seven Gates: A Christmas Album (1994) 
(Alternatieve titel: Christmas at the Ranch)


Steel-guitar influences from New Orleans, Nashville, and Hawaii converge on a snowy December day for this Christmas album. Longtime Neil Young collaborator Ben Keith convenes a cast of many to deliver a seasonal instrumental/vocal combo of "country-folk new age." The sound is pastoral and unassuming, but imbued with a rootsy serenity and stamped with the cachet of guest turns by Neil Young, Johnny Cash, J.J. Cale  and Nicolette Larson. Particularly fascinating is Neil Young’s holding his own with a 27-member boys choir on "Greensleeves."
1. Ave Maria (6:03)
2. We Will Rock You (Rocking) (2:47)
3. Silver Bells (3:14)
4. It Came upon a Midnight Clear (3:23)
5. The Little Drummer Boy (6:41)
6. Christmas Time's A-Coming (2:10)
7. Les Trois Cloches (2:51)
8. O Sanctissima (3:08)
9. Away in a Manger (2:14)
10. Blue Christmas (4:21)
11. Greensleeves (6:28)
totale tijdsduur: 43:20

Bevat flac en mp3 320 kbit bestanden, met frontcover.