Hey, I know it’s the absolute tail end of August, and that’s fine, but
I wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas, right here, right now. In fact, I’m so
inspired by the holiday mainly because of the Polivka Brothers, Rob and Jef
from Denver, who dropped a tape around Christmas 2018 that collected a batch of
original Christmas tunes they made for friends and family in 2015. The nine
songs, acoustic guitar and voice, are straightfaced odes of reverence to objects
and traditions surrounding the holiday: holiday songs on the radio, going to
the movies on Christmas Day, Snoopy, Santa, zithers (sure), being depressed on
New Year’s (who isn’t?), and candy corn… naturally. These modern references and
practices will strike a definite nostalgic chord with a lot of you, especially
if you grew up in the 1980s and 1990s. I think I’ll have to introduce my
brother to this one – he listens to Christmas music pretty much year round.
Guess we have that in common now!
--Ryan
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