Winter Coverfolk, 2009: Snow Songs
I had a totally different entry planned for this weekend, I swear. But outside, the flakes are falling thick and fast in the first snowfall of the season. And inside, for the first time in a very, very long time, my heart is singing, loud and clear in the otherwise-quiet of a snow-hushed world.
It starts in earnest just after supper. By the time I clean up and make my way outside, there’s a two-foot-high snowman, squat and cheerful, looking up at me, the elderchild’s scarf wrapped tightly around its lumpen neck. The kittens are startled, stepping daintily into the white stuff. Somewhere out there in the almost-dark, my little girls shriek gleefully in the dark, their faces to the sky.
I find them, and the girls and I chase each other across the white lawn, leaving footprints and snow angels in their wake. The wee one wins the snowball fight. We destroy the snowman, and make another, as tall as the elderchild. After photographs from the porch, Mama makes us tea, and we drink it together around the kitchen counter, our fingers tingling against the warm mugs, our cheeks flushed and burning bright.
The magic of winter has truly arrived. Let’s celebrate with songs of snow.
- Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem: Snowbird (orig. Gene MacLellan/ pop. Anne Murray)
(from Cocktail Swing, 2001)
- Lissa Schenckenburger: Like The Snow (orig. Kristen Andreassen)
(from Different Game, 2001)
- Robert Earl Keen: Snowin’ On Raton (orig. Townes Van Zandt)
(from Gravitational Forces, 2003)
- Muleskinner: Footprints in the Snow (trad./ pop. Bill Monroe)
(from A Potpourri Of Bluegrass Jam, 1974)
- Fiona Apple: Frosty the Snowman (orig. Gene Autry)
(from Christmas Calling, 2003)
- The Be Good Tanyas: Rain and Snow (trad.)
(from Blue Horse, 2000)
- Said The Lion: White Christmas (orig. Bing Crosby)
(from MySpace, 2008)
- Harry Nilsson: Snow (orig. Randy Newman)
(from Nilsson Sings Newman, 1970)
- Thea Gilmore: Listen, The Snow Is Falling (orig. Yoko Ono)
(from Strange Communion, 2009)
- Laura Cortese: Winter Wonderland (orig. Richard Himber Orchestra)
(from Bored at Christmas, 2007) - Rosie Thomas: Winter Wonderland
(from A Very Rosie Christmas, 2008) - A Weather: Winter Wonderland
(from Willamette Week Christmas Compilation, 2008)
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Category: Holiday Coverfolk
December 7th, 2009 at 1:14 am
I was never a fan of Anne Murray’s snowbird, but I LOVE this version!
December 11th, 2009 at 9:34 am
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May 3rd, 2010 at 6:48 pm
i was being a huge lame-o and googling my musical self when I came across this list! I am really honored to be on it with Fiona Apple and Rosie Thomas! Neat! You made my day.
said the lion
(or Lindsay Anderson)