Is Christmas really the saddest day of the year? There’s a whole history of holiday music that explores what it’s like to be down-and-out during the season. Are you mourning absent family members?

I put it on a little holiday CD that I sold at my shows. So, I was surprised when I saw that I made Entertainment Weekly’s ‘100 Greatest Down-and-Out-on-Christmas Songs.’ I was number 10, right above ...

After growing up, Santa Claus asks the grown-up Rudolph to lead his sleigh on Christmas Eve. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) The 1946 romance is one of the earliest holiday hits in cinematic history.

Musicians have been creating original Christmas songs for years, but it’s rare they become classics or standards in the way “All I Want” has. She’s one of the greatest songwriters of all ...

Oberst and the band deliver one of the finer Christmas songs you’ll ever hear and it deserves a spot on your festive playlist ... The late, great Poly Styrene, the former lead singer of X-Ray Spex and ...

One of the greatest Christmas bops of all time was a b-side that didn’t make the initial cut. Now, there are a ton of solid Christmas songs off A Charlie Brown Christmas, but Linus and Lucy is ...

Country music's Christmas songs are like side dishes at your fancy holiday dinner. Most country fans reach for the standards, but a few will always prefer those specialty treats. Others you ...

I’ve experienced all those things these past few weeks while working on this countdown of the greatest Christmas songs of all time, an unabashedly subjective undertaking, from “White Christmas ...

The Rev. Shawana McGee remembered encountering some children at La Grange’s First Baptist Church as autumn weather took a turn toward winter. “They had no socks on,” she said. “And it was ...

If the New Orleans Saints were visited by ghosts over Christmas, like in the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, the franchise may have very well gone to extra lengths to hold onto one ...