Looking Back at the First 100, Pt. 3

My look back at the highlights of The Twelve Songs of
Christmas this week come from from a transitional period. I had
good and very different conversations with musicians with very
different careers, including the pop purists Hanson, the
bluegrass crossover artist Rhonda Vincent, and indie rapper Mega
Ran. 


This week's show includes excerpts from those conversations,
along Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker of Low, and Martin Lynds and
Jen Gunderman of The Ornaments, a band of Nashville session
players who at the time of the interview had played the Charlie
Brown Christmas soundtrack for 14 years running. 


One note on this episode: I was surprised when I grabbed the file
for the Rhonda Vincent interview that I found my voice distorted
on it. It didn't sound like that when I produced the episode, but
there's not much to do about that now. I tried to minimize how
much of me you needed to hear in that excerpt, but you needed
some of my fuzzy voice to give her answers context. 


If this is the first of your retrospective episodes, you can hear
the first two here and here. 


If you haven't already done so, please do what you have to do to
get Twelve Songs in your podcast feed. You can find us
at Apple Podcasts, Google
Play, Stitcher, Pandora, and Spotify. During our
post-Christmas break, we went live on
the IHeartRadio platform, TuneIn, Audible,
and Amazon's podcast platform. Now, you can ask Alexa and
Siri to play the Twelve Songs of Christmas podcast and let them
pop it up on your voice-controlled personal assistant. 


Here in New Orleans, it's Mardi Gras, so I'm taking the rest of
this week and the start of next week to be part of my city. We'll
meet again in two weeks.