Count Your Blessings (compilation album) explained

Count Your Blessings
Type:	live
Artist:	Jane Siberry, Holly Cole, Rebecca Jenkins, Mary Margaret O'Hara and Victoria Williams
Cover:	Count Your Blessings (compilation album).jpg
Recorded:	1993
Genre:	Christmas music
Label:	CBC Records

Count Your Blessings is a 1994 Christmas album, taking its title from the song of the same name included as its first track, presenting a concert recorded by Jane Siberry, Holly Cole, Rebecca Jenkins, Mary Margaret O'Hara and Victoria Williams.^[1] The concert was broadcast on CBC Radio in Canada, and National Public Radio in the United States, in 1993.^[2]

The concert presented a program of traditional Christmas music, both well-known standards and lesser-known songs.^[3] It also included three original Christmas-themed songs written by the artists themselves: O'Hara's "Never, No", Siberry's "Are You Burning, Little Candle?" and Williams' "A Holy Thing".^[3]

Track listing

1. "Count Your Blessings" (3:19) - performed by Cole, Jenkins, Siberry
2. "Please Come Home for Christmas" (2:35) - performed by Cole
3. "White Christmas" (2:46) - performed by O'Hara
4. "Un Flambeau, Jeanette, Isabelle" (3:38) - performed by Cole, Jenkins, Siberry
5. "What Is This Fragrance?" (2:15) - performed by O'Hara
6. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (3:12) - performed by Williams
7. "Carol of the Bells" (3:07) - performed by Cole, Jenkins, Siberry
8. "Never, No" (2:05) - performed by O'Hara
9. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (3:07) - performed by Jenkins
10. "Are You Burning, Little Candle?" (2:43) - performed by Siberry
11. "Deck the Halls" (2:41) - performed by Cole
12. "A Holy Thing" (3:37) - performed by Williams
13. "In the Bleak Midwinter" (4:27) - performed by Siberry
14. "Silent Night" (5:25)

Notes and References

1. "Spirit, sincerity and passion : Holly Cole and friends remind you to Count Your Blessings". The Record, December 8, 1994.
2. "CBC opens doors for Christmas". Toronto Star, December 12, 1993.
3. "Spend Christmas under the stars". Ottawa Citizen, December 17, 1994.