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Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Diane Zeigler
I've been out of town a lot this week celebrating an early Christmas with my family in Ohio since I'll be in Florida for Christmas. Bottom line - not much time for previewing music.
Diane Zeigler will be this week's (12/12-19) featured artist. I like to go through December featuring artists with excellent Christmas albums and give them a place of prominence as the only holiday music on the station. FWIW, I won't be playing a significant amount of holiday music until next weekend, and I probably will only go with all holiday music on the 23rd or 24th. I think people don't want to hear sleighloads of holiday music until just before Christmas. I don't. I'm sure that I'll also make a trip to Used Kids late next week after I get paid and see what kind of funky Christmas tuneage I can track down.
Back to Diane Zeigler - her Christmas CD, December in Vermont, is a stripped down acoustic treatment of some of the classic Christmas tunes, plus a very nice original (the title track). It's available on her website.
I have quite a few CDs in the queue. I hope this week to get through what looks like a promising sampler CD from the Winona Folk Concerts people, plus CDs from Matt Duane Griffin, Benita Kenn, the Oasis World Sampler #8, a compilation 2-disk set from the Elko National Cowboy Poetry Festival, All She Wrote, and Shawn Z. Plus, I hope to get the new Simon and Garfunkel live set after I get paid.
Diane Zeigler will be this week's (12/12-19) featured artist. I like to go through December featuring artists with excellent Christmas albums and give them a place of prominence as the only holiday music on the station. FWIW, I won't be playing a significant amount of holiday music until next weekend, and I probably will only go with all holiday music on the 23rd or 24th. I think people don't want to hear sleighloads of holiday music until just before Christmas. I don't. I'm sure that I'll also make a trip to Used Kids late next week after I get paid and see what kind of funky Christmas tuneage I can track down.
Back to Diane Zeigler - her Christmas CD, December in Vermont, is a stripped down acoustic treatment of some of the classic Christmas tunes, plus a very nice original (the title track). It's available on her website.
I have quite a few CDs in the queue. I hope this week to get through what looks like a promising sampler CD from the Winona Folk Concerts people, plus CDs from Matt Duane Griffin, Benita Kenn, the Oasis World Sampler #8, a compilation 2-disk set from the Elko National Cowboy Poetry Festival, All She Wrote, and Shawn Z. Plus, I hope to get the new Simon and Garfunkel live set after I get paid.
