
It's the fifth night of Hanukkah and it only seems right to post another couple songs for the Festival of Lights. How's that oil holding out? Washington, DC's retro alt-country outfit Honky Tonk Confidential contributes what may be the first country-western Hanukkah song. The lyrics hit all the highlights of the festivities (at least, as I understand them). The, we jump to the other side of the country for a tune from Velouria , who hail from LA's SIlverlake district. They started off in the mid 90s, as part of a wave of [...]

John Prine recorded "Christmas In Prison" for his third album, in 1973, two years after he recorded "Paradise." In the interest of actually getting something posted today (sorry for the slack over the weekend) , I won't tell you all about each individual track, but there's a decent amount of variety here, so be sure to get 'em all. As always, I recommend the zipfile. Also, there are a lot of covers on YouTube. ( 1 2 3 4 5 should get you started.) [...]