Nearly-Christmas music rec
Dec. 10th, 2019 06:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
regshoeIt's time for some folk Christmas carols.
I love the Steeleye Span version of this song, of course, but I was doing my 'listening to lots of different versions of the same folk song' thing and found this one, which is in a very different but equally good style and has some really lovely harmonies.
Mainly Norfolk has a page on this song with lots of fascinating background. Much as I love the classic church choir-type carols, I really think folk Christmas carols are the best sort—all this density of mythic context gives an odd but somehow appropriate sort of depth to the lyrics about the Nativity story, and the weird, kind of gothic nature imagery feels very fitting for the darkest time of year.
I love the Steeleye Span version of this song, of course, but I was doing my 'listening to lots of different versions of the same folk song' thing and found this one, which is in a very different but equally good style and has some really lovely harmonies.
Mainly Norfolk has a page on this song with lots of fascinating background. Much as I love the classic church choir-type carols, I really think folk Christmas carols are the best sort—all this density of mythic context gives an odd but somehow appropriate sort of depth to the lyrics about the Nativity story, and the weird, kind of gothic nature imagery feels very fitting for the darkest time of year.
