Hey Friends: Hope you're having a great holiday season.
I've taken the liberty of collecting all my Christmas songs together in once place.
You can hear them all, by starting the player below.
Then, at bottom, I've got a little info about each song for you.
Hope you like them, and hope you're having a blessed holiday....EF
About the Songs:
Christmastime Is Here
The classic Vince Guaraldi song from "A Charlie Brown Christmas." I just thought it would be fun to learn it on guitar.
Come Home
This great song was written by my good friend, Bill Nash. I think it's one of my personal favorite Christmas songs, and just captures the essence of the season. I'm pleased that he let me record it a few years back.
Midnight Clear Mashup
One of the things that deeply depresses me is just how often we seem to be at war during Christmas. As if the season of Peace has now sway at all. So, this is my own version of the classic hymn, "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear." If you really listen to the lyrics of this song, you find it's a powerful song of peace. (Especially verse two). Every modern President is juxtaposed with the hymn of peace. Finally, I like the idea of Linus speaking "truth to power" in the form on this story of peace. We should find his boldness, it seems to me.
The Martyr of Black Friday
A song I wrote about the death of Jdimytai Damour, on Black Friday in 2008. Possibly the most depressingly themed Christmas song ever. Learn more of his story here.
Christmas Snow
Two years ago, it snowed on Christmas Eve. One of my most amazing moments in recent years was being in church at 11 pm, as everyone held up candles and sang "Silent Night." And I had the privilege of being able to look out beyond the candlelight, and see falling snow, silhouetted by the street lights. That image stays with me, as one of the most incredible visuals I've ever seen, and helped inspire this song.
Not So Silent Night Hometown
Possibly the second-most depressingly themed Christmas song in history. ;)
This story was inspired by the story of Travis Butler, a young boy who, during the holidays, kept going to school after his mother died in their apartment, because he was so afraid of "disappearing" in the foster system.
That desperation, around the holidays, spoke to me, when juxtaposed to the Christmas story of incarnational love.
In the Bleak Midwinter
The classic hymn by Christina Rossetti. I love the stark imagery in this song...not only of winter...but also of incarnation itself...of a mother's love and how that too is a part of incarnation.
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Tuesday 20 December 2011
Eric Folkerth's Christmas EP
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