Over the Rhine - Blood Oranges In The Snow ((CD))

What is it about Christmas music and the undeniable gravitational pull it exerts on some songwriters? I for one have never been able to resist the urge to scribble a song that might outlive me with hopes of slipping it in among those overplayed and oh-so-tired holiday classics— syrupy and jingly as they may be, sleigh bells ringing into oblivion. The music that surrounds the end of every year is deeply associated with my earliest, most primal musical memories. A time of year with its own music. And every songwriter must admit it: overplayed or not, some of those tunes are magnificent and timeless as falling midnight snow.Blood Oranges In The Snow is the third Christmas record Karin and I have made, and I confess, I think I’m mostly just trying to get back to that early time in my life when the music was all brand new, something to be discovered. But then again, so many Christmas songs have already been written: I think we are genuinely curious about the ones that haven’t. Once up