Alan Mills – Christmas Songs From Many Lands
Alan Mills could elocute. He had a distinguished voice with authority. He was a classically trained operatic bass.
Julie Andrews – The Secret of Christmas
The concept of the “overproduced” record is an interesting one.
The Kingston Trio – Last Month of the Year
The Kingston Trio is, quite straightforwardly, the most important band in the history of music that people don’t normally know about.
Louvin Brothers – Christmas With The Louvin Brothers
The album Christmas With The Louvin Brothers surely must have sounded incredibly old-fashioned in 1961.
Burl Ives – Christmas Day In The Morning
Say the name Burl Ives and mention Christmas and the association will often run to a jolly old man persona, singing “Holly Jolly Christmas” slathered in lavish orchestr
Odetta – Christmas Spirituals
Odetta is an artist whose career really thumbs its nose to all cultural essentialists out there.
Mercedes Sosa – Navidad con Mercedes Sosa
Possibly because it’s a holiday closely linked to Christianity, tradition and commercialism, Christmas has often been construed as a particularly right-wing phenomenon.