Tales of Two Carols
Origin stories: 'In the Bleak Midwinter' and 'Angels We Have Heard on High'
Gospel at Christmastime
Bob Marovich's overview of gospel music at Yuletide, from the Elkins-Payne Jubilee Singers (1926) to the Edwin Hawkins Family (1985).
Christmas Blues with a Positive Spin
Appraising a Yuletide gem from Carolina beach music legend, soul veteran CLIFFORD CURRY, and a look back at Curry's interesting career.
The Holidays, With Ease
SAMARA JOY, a double Grammy nominee, brightens the Yule season with her new EP, A JOYFUL HOLIDAY
Home is Where the Heart Is
On HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, vocalist JAN DALEY offers a little something for all tastes here, ranging from an opportunity to luxuriate in seasonal romance even as the program gently reminds listeners of why we’re here in the firs...
The Deep Roots Yuletide Baedeker 2023
So many good things inside--behold the YULETIDE BAEDEKER 2023 edition. All the Christmas you could want!
Cuddle Time
This delectable five-song missive--an unassuming but undeniably moving seasonal communiqué--is an affecting followup to Ms. Smith's 2007 Christmas gem, My Holiday.
The Real Christmas Miracle
JASON RINGENBERG may have taken to farming but he hasn't left his rock 'n' roll years behind him. He's back with a Yuletide gem outfitted with flourishes of punk and straight ahead rock 'n' roll that recalls his glory years fro...
Ho-Ho-Ho, Who Wouldn’t Go?
IVY FORD offers a delightful holiday treat in HAPPY HOLIDAYS 2020, her EP featuring five tasty Christmas carols and songs, available as a free download at her website. To say the price is right is to be guilty of understatement.
Again the Heart With Rapture Glows
The NEW YORK CITY CHILDREN'S CHOIR summons the solemnity and joy of the Christmas season in CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK, a work of inestimable beauty
Christmas As He Knew It
JOHNNY CASH's CLASSIC CHRISTMAS ALBUM is a sampling from the three Yule albums the Man in Black recorded for Columbia Records. Family and faith are the major, moving themes here.
From Advent to Epiphany
Classical editor ROBERT HUGILL rounds up the best in Classical Christmas albums for 2016.
