Acclaimed songwriter Carolyn Arends (Seize the Day, Reaching New Year’s Day), has delivered the perfect curl-up-by-the-fire Christmas project, featuring 8 originals, 3 classics, and a mesmerizing rendition of The Band’s Christmas Must Be Tonight. From CCMPlanet: Christmas: An Irrational Season is definitely an album you need to pick up this year. Soft percussion, acoustics, a trickling piano and trembling strings sweep under Carolyn's beautiful voice in the opening track 'The Irrational Season (Prelude).' The title of this album and the lyrics in this prelude - 'This is the irrational season / When love blooms bright and wild / For if Mary had been filled with reason / There'd have been no room for the child' - come from a poem and book by Madeleine L'Engle. Closing this short track is an instrumental rendition of the tune popularly known from the song 'What Child Is This?,' setting a tone for this lush yet simple, vibrant yet reverent Chris...