Music Aficionado On What To Listen To This Holiday Season
4 years ago

Music Aficionado On What To Listen To This Holiday Season

NPR  

Music Aficionado On What To Listen To This Holiday Season NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with holiday music expert Chris Klimek about what's on his holiday music playlist this year. CHANG: Our next guest, Chris Klimek, has a tradition of obsessively putting together a holiday mix every single year. KLIMEK: The new Andrew Bird song, "Christmas In April," which was written early in the lockdown, where he's kind of contemplating eight months into the future - what's it going to be like if I can't see my elderly parents during the holiday time? And the lyric in the song is actually, I'm hoping these songs don't ring so hollow when you hear me sing Merry Christmas and Happy New Year - you know, these familiar phrases that often feel inadequate, and maybe particularly so this year.

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