HeyJaredTwelve Songs of Christmas
”The Twelve Songs of Christmas” tries to sort out the place of Christmas music in our culture by talking to the people who make it.
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"Merry Christmas Everybody" by Stompin' Tom Connors (opens the original)
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Folk/country singer Stompin' Tom Connors flew the flag for Canadian culture starting in the late 1960s and continued to do so until he died in 2013. His music documented the people and places he saw traveling across Canada, and the best encapsulation of that project and his sound is Across This Land with Stompin' Tom Connors from 1973. It's online in its entirety for free on YouTube. In 1970, he released Merry Christmas Everybody, which is a very Stompin' Tom Christmas album. It's available in t
"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" (opens the original)
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The new season begins with versions of Darlene Love's Christmas classic. We hear the song we've known forever and ones that I think offer an interesting twist on the original. The episode doesn't include the versions by U2, Years, and Jewel Scheme though I'm entertained by all of them, and if you like the versions by Death Cab for Cutie, Suede Silver, Liela Moss and Chicken Happen, you can find them on Bandcamp. The episode starts with "Secret Box" by Masato Saito, and in the episode I mention m
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