Today news
About the same in other media
Rockin’ around the Christmas streams: why festive music is bigger than ever
Reading now: 713
In July 1968, the visionary US guitarist John Fahey – whose albums, with names such as Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes, hadn’t exactly been money-spinners – was out the back of a record store. “I saw all these cartons of Bing Crosby’s White Christmas,” he later recalled. “The clerk said it always sells out. So I got the idea to do a Christmas album.”
The New Possibility: John Fahey’s Guitar Soli Christmas Album has not achieved the ubiquity of Merry Xmas Everybody or Last Christmas, but it served its role. Purists might sneer – Mojo magazine once dismissed the album as “Cliff-territory bland” – but The New Possibility has never been out of print, selling more than 100,000 copies. Fahey ended up making five Christmas albums, and
Read more on theguardian.comAbout this in other media
Why U.S. Congress stablecoin hearing is ‘like politicians trying to troll’ Bitcoin, crypto ambcrypto.com /3 years ago
Why a cut to the child tax credit in 2022 may not be the last cnbc.com /3 years ago
AmazonSmile donated more than $40,000 to anti-vaccine groups in 2020 theguardian.com /3 years ago
Show more
The website finance-news.co is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.
