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CHRISTMAS ALBUMS Anticipation is high for CARLY SIMON's first holiday-themed release, Christmas Is Almost Here (10/22). BROOKS & DUNN'S It Won't Be Christmas Without You, a holiday first for the country act, showcases classics with a bit of twang (10/22). Trade pear trees for palm trees with Christmas Greetings From Studio One featuring ska and reggae renditions of classics mixed with new tunes from the likes of the SILVERTONES, HORACE ANDY, and BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS (11/5). PATTY LOVELESS invites such pals as VINCE GILL, TRISHA YEARWOOD, and DOLLY PARTON to her Bluegrass & White Snow: A Mountain Christmas hoedown (10/29). Maybe This Christmas is a who's who of college radio, including COLDPLAY, BRIGHT EYES, NEIL FINN, and JIMMY EAT WORLD (11/5). For the young ones, there's School's Out! Christmas, spotlighting Radio Disney favorites DREAM STREET (10/8). The School's Out gang's grandparents, meanwhile, can thrill to JOHNNY MATHIS' Christmas Album, a collection of standards (10/22). The BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA will be swinging into a town near you for a tour in support of Boogie Woogie Christmas (10/8). The GYPSY HOMBRES, acoustic Tennessee trio and shameless Django Reinhardt obsessives, offer Django Bells (9/3), a unique sweet-and-lowdown tribute to Saint Nick. Finally, it wouldn't be Christmas without KENNY G. Wishes, the third Yule CD from the best-selling holiday horndog, offers up traditional and original fare (10/22).

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