Title: Let's Force a Holiday
Product review: I have two Kwanzaa albums...and I think that's all I'll ever bother with. Kwanzaa apparently is an American creation, a manufactured, totally unreligious holiday for blacks who don't wish to subscribe to Christmas. All right, they're entitled. But Christmas music, both secular and sacred, has been amassing for centuries. Popular Christmas music has a long history, and the accumulation of those decades' worth of songwriting is amazing. You can't suddenly say, "Okay, we've got a new holiday here. Anyone got any songs?" You get some truly uninspired results that way, and that's what has happened with this album. These are fairly mediocre tunes that fail to grab you. Maybe if 10 more songwriters chip in with albums of their own, then someone can put together a collection of the best of the bunch and from that a set of "traditional" Kwanzaa songs might evolve. As it is, however, the total output available doesn't inspire.
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