Keith L. Cooper

A Guitar’s Carol
Reel Loud Records
Guitar virtuoso Keith L. Cooper’s first Christmas album is a 10-song chunk of instrumental brilliance.
Style after style, yuletide standard after yuletide standard emanate from his acoustic guitar in ways you wouldn’t quite think possible.

But it is. And each track has that vibe, the one you want in a Christmas record: each song is eggnog in an easy chair, a candy cane with a child. Each song is Christmas Eve.

It’s sometimes funky, sometimes quiet, sometimes background music, sometimes sticking in your head like fruitcake. It’s getting that time again, and thanks to Keith Cooper, it’s a little better this time around.