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WaPo Book Review: Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams, & Rumours

Chris Klimek

My review of Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams, & Rumours, a new biography by British rock journalist Zoë Howe, is in Sunday's Washington Post.

Almost all of the music that shaped my taste at an impressionable age is contemporaneous with Fleetwood Mac's heyday – 1975 to 1989 or so – but I never got into that band though they've obviously written some sublime songs. I won't pretend to have more than a passing familiarity with their catalog, but the ones I've always liked are Nicks', especially "Landslide" and "Dreams," their only No. 1 hit.

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categories books, music
tags Stevie Nicks, The Washington Post, Zoë Howe, Fleetwood Mac, book reviews, The New Pornographers, Neko Case

Twelve Songs of Christmas

Chris Klimek

I was asked to provide a sidebar for my Washington Post essay (in today's Sunday Style insert, with Helen Mirren on the cover, which actually came out Friday) about making my annual yulemix. We didn't have room for my brief rationales for choosing the Twelve Songs of Christmas that I did, so I'm posting it here. Bow your heads and tremble before the Twelve Songs of Christmas!

(Not the twelve songs, as if there could be such a thing. Merely a dozen yule-sides that ring my Christmas bell, presented chronologically.)

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categories music
tags The Muppets, Rotary Connection, Merle Haggard, yulemixes, The Beach Boys, Christmas, The New Pornographers, yuletunes, Sufjan Stevens, Stephen Colbert, Frank Sinatra, Run DMC, Darlene Love, Elvis Costello, She & Him, Washington Post, Phil Spector, James Brown, Rufus Thomas