Christmas Music from Phil Keaggy!

This feature is divided up into three sections, a review of A Christmas Gift, a review of Majesty and Wonder and a review of some of Phil's other Christmas projects.

Other Phil Keaggy Christmas Projects
by Andy Luddy

Elsewhere, Phil appears on the CD Our Christmas, doing the aforementioned "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", which is fantastic. Get this CD if you can; the song is THAT good (IMO).

Editor's Note: "God Rest Ye..." is also available on another varius artists CD called For God So Loved The World.

On an earlier Sparrow collection named "25 Songs of Christmas from Sparrow" (later re-released as "50 Songs of Christmas from Sparrow"), Phil did a very nice instrumental version of We Three Kings. An earlier rough cut of this was on BRT 4. The Sparrow version uses a much better balance of acoustic and electric guitars, it seems to me, or perhaps it's just that I heard it first. Who can say?

Phil appears on Amy Grant's 2nd Christmas offering, "Home for Christmas". He performs on an excellent version of O Come All Ye Faithful, and really has a chance to shine. However, he does not appear on an instrumental guitar version of Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (I think that's Dan Huff). Go figure.

Editor's Note: The guitarist mentioned is Tom Hemby, not Dan Huff.

Phil plays on an instrumental version of "O Christmas Tree" on Michael W. Smith's 2nd Yuletide release, "Christmastime". One verse/refrain is basically instrumental guitar (PK), then one piano (Smitty). Very nice.

BONUS INFO. A CDNOW search to confirm the title of the song Phil played on Amy's album indicates that Phil plays on Kirk Whalum's "Christmas Message", which I had never heard of until now. Well! You learn something new every day.

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