What are your favorites?

Terry Teachout lists his favorite recordings

Michael Linton talks Messiah over at First Things

Me? My favorite Christmas-themed music tends to the medieval, the Renaissance, the Appalachian-tinged, and of course,

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Truly, nothing gets me more in the Christmas spirit, than a dancemix of some super-jaunty Medieval carols with lots of drumming, Patty Loveless singing "Christmas Time’s a-Comin’ and..Robert Earl Keen. Makes me want to wish "Merry Christmas" to a Jehovah’s Witnesses who might come to my door on a Wednesday morning. Oh, would do that? A pretty awful person I guess!Pretty sad all ’round, probably.

Feliz Navidad… 

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