Seven Gates: A Christmas Album

by Ben Keith

Overview

Steel-guitar influences from New Orleans, Nashville, and Hawaii converge on a snowy December day for this Christmas album. Longtime Neil Young collaborator Keith convenes a cast of many to deliver a seasonal instrumental/vocal combo of "country-folk new age." The sound is pastoral and unassuming, but imbued with a rootsy serenity and stamped with the cachet of guest turns by Young, Johnny Cash, J.J. Cale, and Nicolette Larson. Particularly fascinating is Young holding his own with a 27-member boys choir on "Greensleeves." ~ Roch Parisien

Product Details

Release Date:	10/25/1994
Label:	Reprise / Warner Bros.
UPC:	0093624577324
Rank:	172412

Tracks

1. Ave Maria
2. We Will Rock You (Rocking)
3. Silver Bells
4. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
5. The Little Drummer Boy
6. Christmas Time's A-Coming
7. Les Trois Cloches
8. O Sanctissima
9. Away in a Manger
10. Blue Christmas
11. Greensleeves

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Ben Keith   Primary Artist,Dobro,Vocals,Guitar (Steel)
Nicolette Larson   Guest Artist,Vocals
J.J. Cale   Guest Artist,Guitar
Johnny Cash   Guest Artist,Vocals
Neil Young   Guest Artist,Organ,Guitar,Vocals
Dob   Vocals,Vibraphone
Rusty Kershaw   Guitar,Vocals
Mark Howard   Guitar,Mandolin
Pegi Young   Bass
John Mulkey   Vocals
Pamela Brown Hayes   Vocals
Rufus Thibodeaux   Fiddle
Larry Cragg   Oboe
Grant Boatwright   Guitar
Gove Scrivenor   Harp
Charles Cochran   Keyboards
Astrid Young   Vocals
Joseph Allen   Bass
Kenny Malone   Percussion
Mickey Raphael   Harmonica
Larry Paxton   Bass
Jack Clement   Dobro,Guitar
Pat McLaughlin   Bass,Guitar,Vocals,Mandolin

Technical Credits

Ben Keith   Producer
Dick Manning   Composer
Jay Johnson   Composer
Bill Hayes   Composer
Neil Young   Producer
Ray Evans   Composer
David Ferguson   Producer
Henry Onorati   Composer
Franz Schubert   Composer
Gene Rabbai, Jr.   Producer
Jay Livingston   Composer
Jean Villard   Composer
Katherine K. Davis   Composer
Harry Simeone   Composer
Richard Storrs Willis   Composer
James R. Murray   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Tex Logan   Composer
Bert Reisfeld   Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach   Composer
Charles Gounod   Composer
Edmund Sears   Composer
Ottmar Liebert   Composer