Our Review
Gary Hoey plays guitar. He also knows how to arrange Christmas songs in new and different ways, a must for a good Christmas record. Most artists apply their own style to a record. Hoey plays in many styles, and applies them all. His stylistic range serves him well on this record, where the material runs the emotional gamut from Jingle Bells to Little Drummer Boy.
I like everything he is doing on this record, but there is nothing I like better than the soft touch he gives to Away in a Manger. He makes it a lullaby for baby Jesus. Yes, Gary Hoey plays the guitar!
If you like listening to rock and roll, and if you like rock sensibilities applied to Christmas classics, this record is for you. And you might also want to consider his two follow-up Christmas CDs, Ho! Ho! Hoey II and Ho! Ho! Hoey 3.
--Richard Banks
(Reviewed in 1998)
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From the liner notes:
During the 1990s Gary Hoey established himself as one of the premier rock guitarists of his generation. Able to adopt the styles of all of the great rockers, he has established himself particularly in the "surf guitar" genre, so much so that he was chosen to score Bruce Brown's Endless Summer II in 1994. He also has made something of a cottage industry of rock Christmas recordings, having recorded Ho! Ho! Hoey (1995), Ho! Ho! Hoey II (1997), Ho! Ho! Hoey 3 (1999), and The Best of Ho! Ho! Hoey (2001).
Gary Hoey
Ho! Ho! Hoey
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Label: Surfdog
Length: 38 minutes
Genre: Rock
Release: 1995
Track List
| Song Title |
|---|
| The Twelve Days of Christmas |
| Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer |
| Away in a Manger |
| Jingle Bells |
| God Rest |
| Blue Christmas |
| O Come All Ye Faithful |
| White Christmas |
| Little Drummer Boy |
| Silent Night |
| Auld Lang Syne |