My Favorite Christmas Song: In the Bleak Midwinter

I think I first heard In the Bleak Midwinter on Dan Fogelberg’s 1999 project The First Christmas Morning. If you don’t have this CD, go buy it now. It has a distinct acoustic old-world sound that takes you back to Christmases past. Later, I heard James Taylor’s rendition of the song on the 2004 [...]

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A Quote from Longfellow

 
 
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should see sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Amazing Lyrics: The Hand of Sweet Release

This song has been one of my Christmas favorites over the years. Guy Penrod’s lead vocals and David Phelps’ soaring tenor on the recording are the type of singing that in the past easily moved me to tears, even when I didn’t fully understand the words. When I listened again this week, I decided to [...]

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