Not Christmas music Christmas CD reviews

Santa brought these CD's (yes, we still buy actual CD's) for our stocking stuffers. We've had a chance to listen a couple of times and here's my observations.

• The Brian Setzer Orchestra: Songs from Lonely Avenue
• (2009) Setzer is an amazing guitarist, jazzy and heartfelt. The tone and stylings of the music is haunting. The Setzer Orchestra also adds so much to this album. These songs cover a wide spectrum.
• Wylie and the Wild West: Bucking Horse Moon
• (2007) I've been intrigued and drawn to the lap steel guitar country sound since Santa got me one of my one several years ago. While listening to a streaming music channel over the course of a few weeks, I kept hearing this artist. Real Sons of the Pioneers kind of country. A simple earthy tone.
• Dr. Hook: Greatest Hooks
• (2007) This one is kinda fun, and funny how I came to get it. I had the vinyl out not a week earlier and was ripping it for play on our iPods.  When I went shopping for Santa this just happened to be sitting at the end isle and only had 2 of the songs on the vinyl I'd just ripped. Anyway, it has good, polished songs. Nothing too spectacular, though I do still like Cover of Rolling Stone, and Carrie Me Carrie a lot.
• Adele: 25
• (2015) Uh. Yeah. Wow. This girl can sing!
• Leann Rimes: Lady and Gentlemen
• (2011) And this girl can sing too! Great country. Kinda a cover album. Some of the guy/gal parts are swapped out the other way. Lots of familiar songs with super vocals and arrangements.