Christmastide (album)
# Christmastide (album)

Christmastide is Bob Bennett's eighth album; his second with the Signpost Music label. In this release, Bob captures many of Western Civilization's love/hate relationship with the Christmas season.

## Track listing

All songs written by Bob Bennett, except where noted as "(words / music)".

* "God with Us" – 4:05
* "Brightest and Best" (Reginald Heber / James P. Harding) – 4:07
* "Come Thou Not Expected Bossa" (Traditional) – 5:48
* "It May Not Have Been December" – 3:41
* "Jesus Christ the Apple Tree" (Anonymous / Elizabeth Poston) – 5:36
* "The First Noel" (Traditional) – 1:13
* "Christmas for Cynics" – 3:12
* "Both Things" – 3:25
* "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day" (Traditional / John Gardner) – 2:09
* "December MIA" – 4:12
* "O Come All Ye Faithful" (Traditional) – 1:24
* "I Saw Three Ships" (Traditional - adaptation/arrangement: Bennett) – 2:49
* "Carol of the Moon and Stars" – 3:15

## Personnel

* Bob Bennett – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals, composer
* Roy Salmond – producer, recording, electric guitars, keyboards, percussion (including Egg Cup), Piano, Ukulele, Basses (except for John's three tunes)
* Randall Stoll – drums, percussion (6)
* Brian Thiessen – electric guitar (3)
* Carolyn Arends – background vocals (1)
* Joel Stobbe – cello (9, 13)
* John Patitucci – bass (2, 3, 7)
* Mike Janzen – rhodes (3, 7)
* Larry Nickel – arranged choral vocals (6) and conductor (6, 9)
* Fabiana Katz – choral vocals (6, 9)
* Jennifer McLaren – choral vocals (6, 9)
* John Nickel – choral vocals (6, 9)
* Karen Mang – choral vocals (6, 9)
* Larry Nickel – choral vocals (6, 9)
* Ray Harris – choral vocals (6, 9)

## Release history

Christmastide was self-released by the artist in 2009. It is distributed in Canada by Signpost Music.

## Reviews

Christianity Today gave the album 4 stars (out of 5) in their November 2009 review; concluding that "Christmastide achieved the twin "Classic" Christmas recording goals of both making light of the season's chaos while ever so poignantly reminding us why we bother to celebrate."

