Old Enough to Forget

Over the years, I've gathered a wide variety of Christmas music—fun, kitschy, terrible, poignant, and glorious—to celebrate the holiday season. It all starts building up to Christmas Day, continues through New Year's celebrations, and finally winds down at Epiphany. After that, everything is packed away until the first Sunday of Advent—though we often start listening before the end of November. We love Christmas music, heck over the last couple of years I've dedicated December to writing about Christmas music, particularly old albums I'd pick up in the discount bins. This year was a little skinny, but like I said I have a lot of Christmas music, and I just figured I'd pull out one of my favourite CDs. David Edwards is an artist I first discovered back in 1981 when he released his self titled album. That album lived on my turntable for months. His cover of the old Paul Revere classic "Kicks" to me is the definitive version. It was so good but it wasn't ...