Review: Rating the new crop of holiday albums

Artists recording holiday music hail from genres as diverse as R&B, big band, British pub rock and classical Indian.This year's crop of holiday music releases demonstrates anew that the only rule of success in this specialized genre is that there are no rules. Who'd have predicted that the standouts in a year of big name entries would include R&B superstar Mary J. Blige, the erstwhile king of British pub rock (Nick Lowe) and an Indian classical music virtuoso (James Whetzel)?

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