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Kathy Mattea's album Good News is a spare yet elegant Christmas album which could serve as a soundtrack for the reflective season of Advent.

Mary Did You Know? a contemporary Christmas song, marks that place of humanity contemplating God in a way which will reach anyone who is a parent, certainly, and also anyone who has ever held or helped a small child. It's a strong, unsentimental song yet one filled with wonder, a duality which Mattea gets right to the heart of in her rendering of the song.

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