Album: Winter Carols by Blackmore's Night (2017)
Genre: Pop | Mood: Quirky
Record Label: earMUSIC
Format: Album

Description: Winter Carols is a Christmas album by the British/American folk rock band Blackmore's Night, released in the United Kingdom on October, 2006 and in the United States on November 7, 2006. It was their sixth studio albums. The cover artwork for this album, painted by Karsten Topelmann, is an adaptation of a street in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany, in line with the band's heavy Renaissance influence. The same street is portrayed in the cover of Blackmore's Night's second studio album, Under a Violet Moon. In the cover of "Winter Carols" the street is painted as winter time, whereas Under a Violet Moon's cover takes place on apparently a summer night.
On December 2006, Winter Carols entered at #7 on USA Billboard New Age Charts.
The album won the New Age Reporter Lifestyle Music Award as the Best Holiday Album.

Artist Background: Legendary Deep Purple and Rainbow guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (b. April 14, 1945, Weston-super-Mare, England) shifted his musical focus away from hard rock in the late 1990s and started concentrating on his love of Renaissance-era music. He formed Blackmore's Night with his fiancee, vocalist/lyricist Candice Night (b. May 8, 1971, Hauppauge, Long Island, NY), and recruited other musicians from around the world to combine elements of world music, Renaissance, new age, folk, and rock & roll. Bl... Part of the UK, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Folk movement.

Music Scene: Part of the UK, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Folk movement.

Tags: Pop, Quirky, 2010s, Album, earMUSIC

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Winter Carols is a Christmas album by the British/American folk rock band Blackmore's Night, released in the United Kingdom on October, 2006 and in the United States on November 7, 2006. It was their sixth studio albums. The cover artwork for this album, painted by Karsten Topelmann, is an adaptation of a street in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany, in line with the band's heavy Renaissance influence. The same street is portrayed in the cover of Blackmore's Night's second studio album, Under a Violet Moon. In the cover of "Winter Carols" the street is painted as winter time, whereas Under a Violet Moon's cover takes place on apparently a summer night.
On December 2006, Winter Carols entered at #7 on USA Billboard New Age Charts.
The album won the New Age Reporter Lifestyle Music Award as the Best Holiday Album.

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