Some Christmas music is widely loved by multiple generations. Meanwhile, “The Christmas Shoes” by NewSong is a Yuletide tune that is as popular as it is despised. How did a song that seems innocuous ...

I don’t know how I escaped “Christmas Shoes” for such a long time, but I did. I didn’t hear it until this year, and yet, the fact that I’ve heard it umpteen times in the past three weeks at work where ...

“Christmas Shoes,” the holiday dirge about a kid buying a pair of sweet kicks for his dying mom, still gets airtime each December. Ditto the Elvis classic “Blue Christmas” and Joni Mitchell’s ...

You know Dasher and Dancer and Pran … ugh, you know the rest of it. Yes, Virginia, while there is a Santa Claus, the music of the Christmas season can make you shift from having the feels to the ...

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Merle Haggard's "If We Make It Through December." Marty Stuart's "Even Santa Claus Gets the Blues." Kacey Musgraves' "Christmas Makes Me Cry." Country artists -- and their fans -- are suckers for sad ...

We’ve never thought about it until right now, but there aren’t any other holidays (besides some patriotic Fourth of July tunes) where music is so important. While we bake cookies, decorate, the tree, ...

“Hate” is such a strong word, but we’re human enough to admit hating on things — especially Christmas songs — can be a joyous exercise. Healing, even! (And the English language has yet to produce a ...

For a season that’s supposed to be all holly and jolly, many of our most time-honored Christmas songs are anything but. “Christmas music” is less a genre and more an entire season these days, as the ...