Winter Comes Again, Keri Noble (Telarc)

Keri Noble is your typical "Grey's Anatomy"-friendly pop-rock singer-songwriter with three albums to her credit, but she's pretty reticent about her holiday side; a visit to her various Web spaces reveal nothing about her 2004 single "This Christmas Time" or this 2008 EP. Someone should let her know that it does no good to keep your light hidden under a bushel; I'm guessing that the title song, "Santa You Owe Me" and "Everything I Want For Christmas" are originals. "Santa" is a poppy bid to the jolly elf to pick her up and take her away from her lonely life, the title song a pensive ballad and "Everything" the closest thing to a single here. There's also a faithful cover of Joni Mitchell's "River," a downbeat "I Wonder as I Wander" and a solo acapella rendition of "Auld Lang Syne." A good effort, too bad it doesn't include "This Christmas Time" as well.