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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Christmas Music Sampler

by Tom Goodman

It’s easy to take potshots at awful Christmas songs. Here are just a few of the solid ones I have in my hours and hours of Christmas music.

 

The Oh Hellos of San Marcos have a Family Christmas Album out. Here’s a sample, “Begin and Never Cease.”

 

Jason Gray’s Christmas Stories album. Here’s a sample, “Christmas is Coming”:

 

Bruce Cockburn’s Christmas. Here’s a sample, “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” set in a minor key

 

Over the Rhine’s Snow Angels is one of my favorites. “Here it Is” was written by the husband of this husband-wife duo as his recommitment to the marriage after a time of estrangement:

 

Kathy Matea’s got 2 Christmas albums out: Good News and Joy For Christmas Day. From the second album, here’s “All Because of Him.”

 

From Red Mountain Music’s Silent Night here’s “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent”--

 

Ron Sexsmith’s "Maybe This Christmas" is poignant. 

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