December 20, 2007
I’ve been listening to some Christmas music the past week or so. Here’s a few samples.
| I’ve always been a big fan of The Smithereens, and I recently got this new Christmas album from eMusic: Christmas With The Smithereens. If you’re not a fan of the band, it may not be that interesting, but I’m enjoying it a lot. | I love the The Blind Boys of Alabama. I first heard them a number of years ago on, ironically, Don Imus’ radio show. Here’s the title track from their Christmas album, Go Tell It On The Mountain. |
| I don’t have Over the Rhine’s most recent Christmas collection, Snow Angels, but I did manage to get a couple of songs from the album via free downloads, including this one. | I’m really into Leigh Nash’s Wishing For This EP. I downloaded it a few weeks ago and, although I’ve always enjoyed her work, I actually was somewhat surprised that I am enjoying this one as much as I am. |
| If you don’t have Sufjan Steven’s Songs for Christmas, what are you waiting for? | A favorite from the 80’s - it’s Christmas time in Hollis, Queens… |
| If you’re like me, when you think of Christmas, you think of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Here’s Tom and the boys with “Christmas All Over Again.” (Unfortunately this intolerable “Desparate Housewives” video is all I could find for the song.) | Last one: you can’t really have Christmas without “Linus and Lucy” from “A Charlie Brown Christmas”. However, I don’t think this is the original version… |