Blood Oranges in the Snow is Ohio-based folk duo Over The Rhine's third seasonal effort following 1996’s The Darkest Night Of The Year and 2006’s Snow Angels. "The trend isn’t surprising considering Over The Rhine’s husband-and-wife core, Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist, so often employ the strings and bells of pristine acoustic folk—tones and styles ideally suited for holiday music. Still, it’s not all “Silent Night.” The group has dubbed their record “Reality Christmas” for exploring what they say are nuanced songs reconciling the joy and peace of Christmas-time with the dangers of a violent world." (Paste Magazine)
Brighter Visions Beam Afar is a quiet instrumental offering of Christmas hymns arranged for solo guitar and gently performed by Don Peris.
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Call it an eccentric choice, but if you're talking Cockburn I'd go with Nothing but a Burning Light's Child of the Wind, which Cockburn wrote on Christmas Eve 1989. It just gets to me somehow...
Hadn't thought of that song in a Christmas context before, but I can see the connection. 'Nothing but a Burning Light' also has the wonderful 'Cry of a Tiny Babe'.
I was aware of the Over the Rhine albums but not the others, so thanks so much for sharing! They're all great. To the Over the Rhine list I would add the title track to their album "The Trumpet Child," which is the most evocative song about Christ's two advents I've ever heard. (The album itself is not a Christmas album.)
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