The Meaning of Bob Dylan's Christmas Album: The Music (Part 3)

Almost lost in all the commotion surrounding Bob Dylan's new Christmas album, Christmas In the Heart — his first charity album, as the proceeds from all sales are being donated to hunger charities, according to his website — is a fair consideration of the music itself: where it sits in the context of Dylan's overall output, and how it relates to the decades-old genre of Christmas recordings by popular music artists.

Read more of the third in my four-part series about Bob Dylan's Christmas...