Christmas, Close to Home, Hearth and Heart
In his songs about home, hearth and heart, RICK LANG evokes a down-home Christmas celebration, with the help…
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Kinda Memorable Bluegrass for Christmas
This year’s crop of new holiday releases has been one of the weakest in recent memory, but even…
Pt. I: ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’ & The Lost Punctuation Mark
What Americans hear when they listen to 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen' is not anything like what the…
Pt. 2: ‘God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen’ and The Dickens Connection
Ever wonder what is the Christmas carol of Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol'? Evidence points to 'God Rest Ye…
Hark the What? Ironies of a Beloved Carol
REV. MARK D. ROBERTS knows 'If you don’t want to tick people off, then don’t change the words…
How Mr. Chokepear Keeps A Merry Christmas.
From a December 25, 1841 issue of the British humor and satire magazine PUNCH, a story satirizing a…
The ‘Quiet Ecstasy’ of Harry Simeone’s ‘Little Drummer Boy’
The story behind THE HARRY SIMEONE CHORALE's classic 'THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY' begins in 1941 with KATHERINE KENNICOTT…
Christmas in Verse, 2021
Timeless Christmas poems by ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, DOLLIE RADFORD, ROBERT SOUTHWELL, et al. plus Christmas music videos featuring…
A Half-Century+ of Classic Animated ‘Rudolph’
On Dec. 6, 1964 NBC premiered an animated version of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER with BURL IVES as…
The Deep Roots 2016 Yuletide Baedeker
A guide to the Christmas content published over the years in TheBluegrassSpecial.com and Deep Roots, including our 2016…