The Christmas Music Manfesto

In 2018 when I launched Twelve Songs, I published "The 12 Songs
Manifesto," a statement of my core beliefs about Christmas
music. 


Now that we're in our sixth season and have a lot of listeners
who weren't around back then, I thought it was worth revisiting
and documenting in podcast form. I flesh out my thoughts, add a
few and revise a few that no longer seem as crucial to me. And, I
have music by Luther Vandross, Rockin' Sidney, Paul McCartney,
Alexander O'Neal, The Bird and the Bee, SUNBEARS! and more to put
some musical meat on those bones. 


There was one late edit that some of you will notice. There is no
Number Eight in my manifesto, not because I didn't have one but
because I discovered while looking for an image to accompany this
episode that the musician I featured had been found guilty of
some extremely un-Christmas-y behavior. It was too late in the
process to redo the whole passage, so I simply cut it.