An Old Fashioned Christmas

Just as many saw her annual Christmas show, and yesterday she was back in Bærum. Four Norwegian cities will be on the tour, but Sweden and Denmark will also be visited. Sissel is international, but it’s mostly now before Christmas. We see and hear very little from her for the rest of the year.
But the plates are coming close. Since 2019 she has released five albums and one EP entitled ‘Reflections’ with Roman numerals after them, two of which are wholly or partly Christmas records. The other songs include old “pop whispers”. How many of these have you heard?

Every December, Christchurch enjoys the start of summer as Saskatoon begins to freeze over. For as far apart as these places may seem, you would never know it from Plastic Bouquet [New West Records]—the debut collaborative album between Saskatoon duo Kacy & Clayton and New Zealand singer and songwriter Marlon Williams.

His voice was never a thing of beauty, and his band was never the slickest, but there's so much to enjoy here. We take the E.T. story from 1954 to 1960. There's plenty of variety, from bar-room anthems like Set Up Two Glasses Joe to a surprisingly good cover version of Chuck Berry's Thirty Days. There were great forgotten singles like Kansas City Blues, Will You Be Satisfied That Way, Half A Mind, and A Guy Named Joe, as well as rare albums like "The Daddy Of Them All" and "The Importance Of Being Ernest." E.T. wasn't about to change just because everyone else was, and his Texas honky tonk music comes no finer than this.