BE 2026

“Why You Should Listen to John Fahey’s Christmas Music—Even If You Hate Christmas Music”

Around this time every year, we pull out John Fahey’s The New Possibility and Low’s Christmas and wish there were more seasonal albums this good. Here’s an essay we read last year about that desire, including a few more albums worth hearing.  And here’s Fahey’s The New Possibility, if you have never heard it. And the Low.

Read more here. 

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