The December album for A Folk Song A Day is available from today. Released 2 weeks earlier than normal, it includes many festive favourites which have been given the AFSAD treatment. If your looking for something to help get you through the cold winter nights or just can’t simply wait to find out what songs Jon has lined up for the rest of December, you can buy the latest album from all good digital download stores now.
Available to buy now:
Don’t forget, all of the previous months albums are also available to buy now:
Can you tell me which is the bitrate, please?
Thank you
The December songs that I downloaded from Amazon have a variable bitrate between 158 (Babes in the Wood) and 221 KBit/s (The Holly and the Ivy). The files in the podcast are 128 kBit/s.
Thank you SO much for releasing the album early – I thought it was going to be next Christmas before I could add it to my Christmas week listening (except by listening to tracks one by one on the website, which is what I did while writing my Christmas cards).
I’d say hurrah. Except. As well as Jungle Bells, which I admit he did as well as anyone can, there’s a version of Rudolph? I may have just lost my faith in the song choices.
(Of course, I’m saying this as someone who is currently finding Songs from the Floodplain more comforting and consolatory than Christmas music, so I might perhaps suggest taking the grumble with a grain of salt. But I have hated Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer for years.)
The November album hasn’t shown up on Emusic yet. Is there a problem with that site? cheers
Lenora, please don’t critizise Rudolph before you hear it. Up to now Jon has found fresh views for a lot of songs I had been sceptical about before. I’m sure this one will be a gem (a ruby?) too.
And I’d like to hear Jungle Bells with Fay starring as The Monkey. Off we go!
Reinhard. Well, as proven now, yes, I do get to bite my tongue. But then, sacred harp seems to make all things good.
Definitely my most enjoyable, fascinating and revelatory album this Christmas (2010) – ’still playing it frequently in January. And all after a fantastic Bellowhead gig in Birkenhead. Cheers, Jon!