Category: Christmas Music

And when the night is falling, down the sky at midnight; Another year is stalling, far away a goodbye, good night I really like The Weepies’ style of gentle folk, and included All That I Want on my 2009 Christmas mix CD. It’s a track from their first album, Happiness.

Once in royal David’s city, stood a lowly cattle shed; Where a mother laid her Baby, in a manger for His bed Sufjan Stevens has recorded a great deal of Christmas music, and I included this track on the 2008 mix. I think this was also the first version I’d heard of this song –…

Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow; In the bleak midwinter, long ago. This version by Sarah McLachlan was another song on the 2008 Christmas mix CD. Wikipedia helpfully advises that the song is based on a poem by Christina Rossetti written before 1872, which then appeared in The English Hymnal in 1906…

When I am a seeker, I seek both night and day; I seek the Lord to help me, and He shows me the way James Taylor’s version of Go Tell It On The Mountain was on my first Christmas mix CD in 2008. Due to a general lack of contact with Christmas music I think…