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Brightest and Best

Phyllis Petras | Sacramento, California (it sure is flat here! If | 09/14/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"These are old and lovely carols which I hope will never be forgotten. I bought this Cd for the carols Brightest and Best, and The World is Old Tonight, but all would be a wonderful addition to any choir's Christmas program."

Hauntingly beautiful

A reader and a writer | Arlington, VA, USA | 12/15/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you think you've heard every Christmas song worth cherishing, you haven't--until you've heard this album. Ritchie's exceptional sense of Southern Mountain tradition, rooted in her own and her family's heritage, blends with a delicate contemporary musicality to create a hauntingly beautiful album that reaches far into the past and will deepen your sense of the wonder of the season for years to come--as it has done for me. I have perhaps 50 albums of folk, classical, and popular Christmas music from many cultures and places around the world, and I consider this one of the two or three that I love most of all."