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Winter Star

by Tim's Sock Puppet

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1.
Silent Night 04:40
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2.
Bleak Midwinter 04:55
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3.
Jingle Bells & Jingle Bell Rock 02:42
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4.
Gower Wassail (live from a Yule party) 05:32
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5.
I heard the bells on Christmas Day 08:23
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6.
O Holy Night (instrumental) 01:57
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7.
O come, Emmanuel (acoustic, also, if God is with us, is he also with them? If Israel mourns in lonely exile, where is Palestine?) 04:48
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8.
Bleak Midwinter's ambience revisited & stretched 15:51
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9.
Holy Night, Silent Night, Bloody Night? (A Christmas truce sound collage interrupted by a counter-Silent Night) 06:06
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Bleak Midwinter's tech miscommunication + giving 'white Christmas' a new meaning 02:44
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Silent Night's sound collage & the spirit of the season interrogated 06:06
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12.
DONE You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch (Live from the Live Drive Cafe, touched up) 03:36
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about

Tim sang and played banjo, guitar, mandolin, flute, ukulele, kazoo, pedals and devices.
Chrissy sang and played guitar, saw, and glockenspiel.
Erin played fiddle.

Recorded in Tim's bedroom and apartment, Decembers 2020-2023, with "Grinch" recorded at the Log Drive Cafe in December 2018(?). Singers and guitar players at the 2023 Yule Party included Marianne/Oddeline, Robert, Marina, Maureen, Canute, and Hayley. Jack Pyl played the brilliant tin whistle.

David Bazan wrote the original alternate verses for "Bells of Christmas" and "Silent Night" (that Tim sings in "Holy Night, Silent Night, Bloody Night?"). Check out and support his work:
davidbazan.bandcamp.com/album/dark-sacred-night

Thanks to other purveyors of Christmas music for weary hearts like Sufjan Stevens, John Prine, Bright Eyes, and Low for inspiration and musical succor at an often grinding and fake time of year.

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released December 24, 2022

Samples gathered from:
Black Christmas (1974)
Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Gremlins (1984)
BBC Voices of the First World War
Duncan Barrett's Short History of the Christmas Truce
CBC talking about the Christmas truce
Michael Moore talking about Christmas bombings and genocide
Our Changing Climate talking about "Why We Need a War On Christmas"
Valerie Vande Panne talking about "We Can Reclaim Christmas from Capitalism"
Paul Ringel talking about “Why Children Get Gifts on Christmas”
Stephen Nissenbaum talking about "The Battle for Christmas"
Thoughtslime talking about Rare Exports
Crimethinc talking about Christmas
Alan Lomax talking about the Puritans' war on Christmas
News from American Prestige, CBC, NPR
Other forgotten things

News samples undocumented

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