Sara Groves has a /christmas album out as well. These videos A Wassailer’s Guide To Christmas Carols examine some of th more esoteric aspects of seasonal song. 1. Moving punctuation. 2. On traditional texts and regional tunes. (with some weird lyrics being sung to a traditional tune) 3. Antiphons. O Antiphons. (The secret origin of …

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Christmas Songs starts on December 2 this year. Now, I know that technically in Church music terms the weeks before Christmas are not meant to be filled with carols, but too bad. I’m not posting carols in January. As always, I begin with Andrew Peterson’s Behold The Lamb Of God album, which has been re-recorded …

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