The Klezmatics: 'Happy Joyous Hanukah'
One of critic Robert Christgau's favorite CD's of the year is also a holiday CD: Happy Joyous Hanukah, with music performed by America's premiere Klezmer band, The Klezmatics. But the lyrics are all written by folk icon Woody Guthrie. Although Guthrie wasn't Jewish, his wife was; her background inspired a collection of words never before set to music.
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