Root Down in the Shadow

According to most, the holiday listening season starts the day after Thanksgiving.  Black Friday starts the season off in a chaotic fashion for most, with people scrambling to re-load their collection onto their respective media players, filtering through the crap to re-find the good stuff. To help get right to the good stuff, I have put together a list of 10 songs that I am most looking forward to playing once the holiday listening season officially begins! 10.  She & Him .  I just downloaded this for $5 from Amazon.  It was too irresistible to pass up.  I can't wait to check out 'Baby It's Cold Outside'.  I loved the duet with Will Farrell on Elf , and I kind of like the duet with Leon Redbone on the Elf Soundtrack .  I'm very curious to hear Zooey Deschanel (She) with M. Ward (him) 9. Béla Fleck & The Flecktones - ’Jingle Bells' -  I love this totally nontraditional version of the song done only as Béla Fleck could ...

Having a three year old is awesome!  I get to re-watch all sorts of movies from my youth.  Even better, I get to re-live soundtracks again for the first time.  Molly, is quite fond of "Matilda Song" otherwise known as Rusted Root - 'Send Me On My Way' .   She's very entertaining with who she likes, and who she wants to see repeatedly on YouTube!.  She was first obsessed with Pokey LaFarge , next it was Matisyahu.   Now, she is obsessed with "Make-up Girl", otherwise known as Florence + the Machine .  But I digress,,,, Rusted Root - 'Send Me On My Way' from When I Woke So after repeat views of Matlida brought Rusted Root back to mind, I put When I Woke in the wife's car for heavy rotation.  We were giving the album the full treatment, windows down, volume up, and singing along.  I realized nearly twenty years later, I still have no idea what Michael Glabicki is saying.  This is curious, as I used to spend countless hou...