Christmas News:
It seems odd to be writing about a group called Silent Winters after just transitioning to spring, but here we are.The Canadian Folk duo of Olenka Bastian and Jonathan Chandler began as a side project in 2017, when the pair were members of the Ottawa Indie group Amos The Transparent. The name is meant to reflect the silence one experiences after a heavy snowfall, when the blanket of snow seems to absorb all sound. Their music follows in the tradition of Folk duos like Si...
The Oak Ridge Boys plan to release a new Christmas album before 2019 is out. It would be their eighth and their first since 2016s Celebrate Christmas. The announcement came as the Grammy winning Country Hall of Fame group renewed their partnership with super-producer Dave Cobb who produced the hugely successful 2009 release The Boys Are Back. The Christmas album will be followed by a Cobb produced album of classics and standards in 2020.The Oak Ridge Boys were origi [......
So...look, I know Ive been saying this every year for the last six or seven, but, in all likelihood, Stubbys will not be back for the 2019 Christmas season. Lots of reasons for that but, at the core, I just dont want to do it anymore. I want to lay back and enjoy the season in the ways I used to (the nice thing about searching for Christmas music without a blog is that you can stop when youre burned out). I will likely be posting more at Imwan and The Fa than I have [.....
Miss me?If youve followed Stubbys for a long time, you know that I have a particular fondness for Martin Luther King Day and have made an effort to collect music appropriate for same. I mean Ive got a crapload of Christmas music and Halloween music. So then what Nearly every songs a love song, so Valentines Day is too easy. Easter music sucks. Thanksgiving is about food and football. What am I gonna do Arbor DayMartin Luther King Day is January [...] ...
Just a quick reminder that youve got a week left to get A Stubbys House Christmas 2018 before it melts away forever. And it does contain a pair of great New Years tracks...Sofia Talviks Poem At Years End and Emma Rowleys rendition of the classic What Are You Doing New Years Eve. Now on to some songs for New Years.Everything else in this post will be new (or newly discovered) and free, but we open with a nice bit of Funk that you may have missed which is neither. [...] ...
There were so many albums I really wanted to get to, this year...to properly review or at least feature. The old computer dying when it did threw a bit of a wrench into the works, but I was pretty much behind all season anyway. And its not that I think anyone out there relies solely on Stubbys to learn of new Christmas releases (if you do, you shouldnt), but a voice of recommendation from any corner is a good thing. So youve got 11 months, now, to prepare next years playli [......