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“A Yuletide Love Affair” is a warm, romantic, and emotionally rich collection of 12 original holiday songs by Ropatt. Blending classic Christmas nostalgia with modern soulful storytelling, the album explores the many shades of love during the holiday season — longing, joy, reconciliation, and cozy intimacy.

A Yuletide Love Affair

A YULETIDE LOVE AFFAIR

An instrumental portrait of St. Louis shaped by river wind, red-brick warmth, and the quiet gravity of the Mississippi. The album blends dusty Americana with gentle brass, upright-bass pulse, and shadowed acoustic guitar, carrying the mood of old neighborhoods, steel bridges, and slow riverboats drifting past the Arch. Each track moves with unhurried weight—sometimes soulful, sometimes reflective—rooted in the sounds of alleyway drums, distant horn lines, and late-evening air. A warm, atmospheric journey through city memory, river history, and the calm glow of St. Louis after sundown.

Red Brick Afternoon

Cool

Movin' On

Double Vision

Maputo

Wes Bound

A Little Bumpin' (feat. Harvey Mason & Bob James)

Touchdown

Angela (Theme From Taxi)

Feel Like Making Love

For Lee Ritenour, there aren’t many ‘firsts’ left to achieve. During his dazzling five-decade career, the fabled LA guitarist has taken his music to the outer limits, alighting on every genre and occupying every position in the rock ‘n’ roll firmament. He’s been an enfant terrible of ’70s fusion, a crossover star of the ’80s pop chart, an honorary exponent of Brazilian jazz, and the fingers behind ’90s supergroup, Fourplay. Ritenour’s accolades include: 45 albums,16 Grammy nominations, Alumnus of the year at USC, Los Angeles’ Jazz Society Honoree (2019), plus thousands of sessions with legends such as Frank Sinatra, Pink Floyd, B.B. King, Tony Bennett, among others.

A Little Bumpin' (feat. Harvey Mason & Bob James)

Lee Ritenour

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