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6 January 2025

Walking. Domingo Baca arroyo. Longest walk. Fastest pace. Morning movement. Chair Stretching.
O, Fair New Mexico – rick pickren
I Am The Light Of The World – Jim And Jean Strathdee
We Three Kings – dc Talk
Jesus Ahatonnia – Bruce Cockburn
A Way Home – Black Violin
The Three Kings And I – Trans-Siberian Orchestra
We Three Kings – The Roches
We Three Kings – Robert Mirabal
Angels From the Realms of Glory – Bill Carter And The Presbybop Quartet
We Three Kings – Rod Stewart, feat. Mary J. Blige
Three Elders – Red Nativity
Home By Another Way – James Taylor
Carols of the Epiphany – Greek Folk Children’s Choir
We Three Kings – Michael Doucet
Epiphany Carol – Francis Patrick O’Brien
We Three Kings of Orient Are – Three More Tenors
We Three Kings (Reimagined) – Olivia Newton-John
We Three Kings – The Rhos Orpheus Male Choir
We Three Kings – Cumberland Gap Reunion
We Three Kings – Bill Mize & Ed Gerhard
We Three Kings – Alice Gomez
The Little Drummer Boy – Johnny Cash
Carol Of The Bells – Leonard Bernstein: New York Philharmonic Orchestra
In The Bleak Mid-Winter – Holiday Traditions
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – André Previn
O Come All Ye Faithful – The Chieftains
Nadal de Luintra – Berrogüetto
O Little Town of Bethlehem – Darlene Silversmith
Go Tell It On The Mountain – Commissioned
The First Noel – Bill Miller
Ave Maria – Carpenters
Snowman’s Waltz – Little Windows
Silent Night – The Blind Boys of Alabama & Taj Mahal
A Wassail, a Wassail – Quadriga Consort
The Holly & The Ivy – John Rutter: Clare College Singers & Orchestra
El Primer Noel – Gaby Moreno
Huron Carol – John McCutcheon
What Child Is This – david m. bailey
Drive Cold Winter Away – Castlebay
I Saw Three Ships – Lindsey Stirling
Joy to the World – Nossa Bossa Nova

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Tommy Sands at Christmas

Many years friends ask about favorite Christmas songs.
I name two every year.
Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon
The Rebel Jesus by Jackson Browne
This year I add, Like the First Time It’s Christmas Time by Northern Ireland’s Tommy Sands.
It is another song that speaks of the hope and possibility and peace of the season.
See you along the Trail.

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Christmas songs

Two Friars and a Fool looked at “Christmas songs that are actually good” yesterday. They tend to focus on songs used in worship services. Their lists include a shout-out to the Chieftain’s version of St. Stephen’s Day Murders.

Two Christmas songs I have to hear over and again at this season are Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon and The Rebel Jesus by Jackson Browne. They rarely appear in worship services, but each song speaks of the radical turning-of-the-world made possible in Jesus. They speak of peace and possibility, alternatives and hope, compassion and justice. Those themes emerge as we gather each year round the manger. Jesus embodies those themes in his life. He invites his followers to live into them as well. Sometimes we do.

How about you? What Christmas songs speak to you?

See you along the Trail.

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Christmas music 2012

Every year about this time, I post about Christmas music. Here I go again.

I like Christmas music. I manage to refrain from playing it on my iPod until Advent begins. Once that first Sunday of preparation and waiting dawns – away I go!

IMG00078-20111212-1925This year, after attending the Bring Leonard Peltier Home in 2012 Concert that he co-hosted with Pete Seeger, I purchased my first Harry Belafonte CD – a CD of Christmas music. I had known of Belafonte’s incredible commitment to social justice. Now, through the lens of Christmas, I appreciate him as an artist.
Two Christmas songs I have to hear over and again at this season are:

Christmas in the Trenches” by John McCutcheon

The Rebel Jesus” by Jackson Browne

How about you? What music speaks to you at Christmas?

See you along the Trail.

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Christmas music

We hear Christmas music everywhere. We have heard it since before Thanksgiving – we often rush the season.

Some Christmas music is certainly vapid and insipid. Fortunately, much of it is profound and moving.

My friend Shannon recently posed the question on her Facebook page:

If you were to record a holiday album, what 2 songs would you include? (traditional or current)? And no “Grandma got run over by a Reindeer”

Many come to mind, but the two I would choose are:

Christmas in the Trenches” by John McCutcheon

The Rebel Jesus” by Jackson Browne

How about you? What two songs would you include?

See you along the Trail.

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