Earlier in the month I featured a Christmas song by The Killers, a band I’ve been delving much more deeply into this year (more to come on that in my end-of-year summation post). So now I’m thinking, “What about some of my other favorite bands and acts?” So, a tour of Christmas sounds of other bands and artists that I like! (I am limiting this to living performers.)
Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors:
Shannon Dooks:
Dolly Parton:
Kelly Clarkson:
Heart:
Blackmore’s Night:
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra:
Unrekated: I was searching your archives for a Dvorak 9th (some are, alas, dead musical links). So I went to the beginning of your blog. 1) You were astonishingly prolific, but 2) all of the titles were Untitled post until 9/11/2003. This was before I was reading your stuff, and before I started my own blog in 2005, so this was a fascinating journey.
Wow, you went ALL the way back? That must have been…something! I remember that I really took quite a while to get comfortable with the whole “blogging” thing…plus, I wasn’t posting under my real name at the time, because that was still when “Don’t put your REAL name on the INTERNET!!!” was still very common advice. In 2002 politics and war were THE dominant topics, and it was hard to vary from those. I wonder what percentage of links from back then are totally dead…I think my blog is older than YouTube, even. Oh, and Blogger didn’t even support post titles back then, which is why there were none for a while. For years it was Blogger’s policy to never delete anything, but I don’t know if Google has since gone through and removed blogs that died twenty or more years ago….