Alternate Routes, Same Destination
New holiday fare by KRISTIN KORB and Canada's folk duo SILENT WINTERS take alternate routes to arrive at…
The Deep Roots Video Holiday Card
From DEEP ROOTS to our readers, a holiday card of the video variety, featuring the ghost of Jacob…
The Mythic Weight Of Phil Spector’s Christmas Gift
In 1963, PHIL SPECTOR thought his CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR YOU album would be a career-defining event. Then a…
A Soul Ever More Grateful For What It Knows Of Love
An updated review of a holiday classic: B.B. KING's A CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION OF HOPE. Indeed it is.
Christmas in All Hues of Blues
CHRISTMAS IN ALL HUES OF BLUES, an updated review from 2012, spotlighting four classic blues-oriented Yuletide collections: DEATH…
What Christmas Is As We Grow Older
From CHARLES DICKENS's twopenny weekly, Household Words, a 1951 meditation, 'What Christmas Means as We Grow Older,' an…
Sublime & Swingin’
A tribute to the late, great VINCE GUARALDI, and his masterpiece within a masterpiece, the score for the…
The Greatest Gift
A solo acoustic guitar masterpiece, DAVID WOOD's A CHRISTMAS GIFT captures the true spirit of the season as…
From Advent to Epiphany
Classical editor ROBERT HUGILL rounds up the best in Classical Christmas albums for 2016.
‘I WONDER AS I WANDER’
STORIES BEHIND THE SONGS: JOHN JACOB NILES's own account of writing 'I Wonder As I Wander,' plus an…