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Out Now: ‘Here We Come A-Caroling’ EP from Blackmore’s Night (ft. Ritchie Blackmore)

Today, Dec. 4, Blackmore’s Night, the project involving iconic & influential guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) and his wife, singer/multi-instrumentalist Candice Night, released a new holiday EP.
Here We Come A-Caroling features four classic Christmas songs from the pair, and was previewed recently with a delightfully folksy version of “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”:
“Here We Come A-Caroling” was also shared ahead of the EP’s release:
The track listing:
- Here We Come A-Caroling
- It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
- O Little Town Of Bethlehem
- Silent Night
Click here to pick up the holiday EP from our Rock Cellar Store
Click here to pick up the holiday EP on limited green vinyl from our Rock Cellar Store
Listen to Here We Come A-Caroling below, via Spotify:
This special holiday EP will be the first release from Blackmore’s Night since 2015’s All Our Yesterdays, the band’s tenth studio album. There’s another new record, Nature’s Light, expected out in 2021.
For more on Ritchie Blackmore, click here to read our 2016 Behind the Curtain entry from writer Steve Rosen. A snippet:
Ritchie and I would meet for a third time when I was assigned to interview him for the cover of Guitar Player [September 1978]. Blackmore was holed up at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in West Hollywood and when I first entered his room the shakes began. I didn’t know which Ritchie I was going to get: the rude one or the cool one.
Thankfully, I was greeted by the latter. He was remarkably open, funny and emotionally engaged. Maybe he was simply in a bright mood that day and knew that I was there to interview him for the cover of the biggest guitar magazine in the world at that time and treating me like some second class citizen wouldn’t be in his best interest.