Our Christmas Best to You
In the late '80s BONNEVILLE MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS sent out a press-only holiday tape that is an unassuming classic…
Christmas Blues with a Positive Spin
Appraising a Yuletide gem from Carolina beach music legend, soul veteran CLIFFORD CURRY, and a look back at…
45 Years Later, Still Right on Time
The tipoff is in the title: MERRY CHRISTMAS WITH MARTY ROBBINS. One of country's greatest singers is intimately…
Everything Old Is New Again
On CHRISTMAS, the platinum-plus Australian Christian artist PETER FURLER teams with Vintage Christmas aficionado DAVID IAN for a…
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…
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…