This song has sometimes been referred to as an “anthem of loneliness at the holidays,” but I love it, and this version by the divine Ella Fitzgerald is a cut above.
This song has sometimes been referred to as an “anthem of loneliness at the holidays,” but I love it, and this version by the divine Ella Fitzgerald is a cut above.
Houston’s Christmas Music Station has started playing their regular rotation again as of yesterday, but with holiday songs still sprinkled in. So here’s another Christmas song from me, too!
Jonathan Coulton is, frankly, an inspiration. He decided he wanted to make his career in music and so wrote a song a week, then posted it, built a following, and transitioned from his old job (that he apparently didn’t love) to a career in music. That kind of creative stamina is something I wish I could even imagine on a practical level, to say nothing of achieve. (To be clear, there’s a lot about my “day job” I like and wouldn’t want to give up. But the ability to create so much is just astounding to me, and feels therefore aspirational.) I also find his quirky, clever sense of humor really satisfying.
This song was from one of his Thing A Week albums. Enjoy!
Happy Kwanzaa to everyone celebrating it!
This song by Lovely Hoffman was a new one to me, but I really enjoy listening to it, and I hope you will too.
Sorry if it seems I’ve fallen off the face of the blog lately. Things have been busy. Not bad these last few days, but hectic.
Anyway, I hope you’re all having a wonderful Christmas, or if you’re not celebrating it, a really excellent weekend.
It’s the winter solstice here in the northern hemisphere. Happy Yule to everyone celebrating it!
It can be challenging to find Yule carols that aren’t just remakes of well-known Christmas carols, but this original song is quite lovely and captures the comfortable wintry cold of the season nicely, for those who like that sort of thing. (And I rather do, perhaps because I’ve never had to actually live in a snowy climate rather than just visit it for a week or so. Or so suggests my husband, who is from Maine.)
Anyway, enjoy this additional festival of lights, added to a season filled with them.
This is a nice, mellow one from Queen that really speaks to how things have been going, but also, things are kind of looking up. It’s a whole mood.
Here is another song I’ve always loved since I was a child, done with an ethereal treatment by an artist I only first heard of a couple of years ago, but whose holiday work — that I’ve heard — I like quite a lot.
Happy Hanukkah to everyone celebrating it!
I always love “Carol of the Bells” — except for one version which I cannot stand — and learned this year that it was originally a Ukrainian carol. There’s not anything especially interesting to watch here, but the music is pretty great.
If you like your holiday carols with a side of Gothic, then this is for you. My Norse aesthetic loving friends will like this one, too. Enjoy.