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Sufjan Stevens Shares New Version of His Christmas Rarity "Lonely Man of Winter"
Proceeds Benefit Brooklyn Non-Profit Venue JACK
Nov 08, 2018
Sufjan Stevens is no stranger to original Christmas music. Christmas song, "Lonely Man of Winter." Listen below.
In 2007 Stevens held "Sufjan Stevens Xmas Song Xchange Contest," in which he asked to submit original Christmas songs they had recorded. He then picked his favorite, Alex Duffy's "Every Day is Christmas," and exchanged his own original Christmas song, "Lonely Man of Winter," with Duffy, swapping rights to each song. For more years Duffy and his friend Dave Mallory held listening sessions for Stevens 'song instead of releasing it, but he eventually became too busy with his Brooklyn non-profit performance came JACK and so Duffy asked Stevens' Asthmatic Kitty label if they could finally release the song, with proceeds going to JACK. Tomorrow the original version of "Lonely Man of Winter" is being released digitally, alongside this new version that was produced by Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman) and Melissa Mary Ahern. Also being released is Duffy's "Every Day is Christmas". The two versions of "Lonely Man of Winter" will also be released on 7-inch on December 7.
Duffy's "Every Day is Christmas" in the Soundcloud for the song: "I fell in love with one particular song because of it's happy simplicity: Alec Duffy's 'Every Day Is Christmas.' It feels, at once, like a tune, the perfect parlor song, a lackadaisical bar ballad, and a church hymn. It is unencumbered with the pejoratives and prophetic exclamations of Christmas, the most complicated of holidays. to indulge in the Christmas blues, the heavy winter dread, the melancholy expectations of the season, and the still marvel at the sacrilege, the subversive satire, and the silly nonsense of Christmas as a commodity, patterned with the cartoon characters Charlie Brown, Santa Claus, and Rudolf For me, the entertainment of these bi-polar fantasies will never be quite fade away, but they are fundamental to the mysteries of Christmas. love, the love between two people, the kind of love that does not obligate itself to the trumpet fanfares and jingle bells of a holiday show Alec Duffy's unfettered song The most effortless of words and melodies, somehow making perfect sense of a senseless holiday. Thanks, Alec, for this great gift. Happy Christmas to you and yours! "
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