Looking Back at the First 100, Pt. 3

<p>My look back at the highlights of The Twelve Songs of Christmas this week come from from a transitional period. I had good and very different conversations with musicians with very different careers, including the pop purists Hanson, the bluegrass crossover artist Rhonda Vincent, and indie rapper Mega Ran. </p> <p>This week's show includes excerpts from those conversations, along Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker of Low, and Martin Lynds and Jen Gunderman of The Ornaments, a band of Nashville session players who at the time of the interview had played the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack for 14 years running. </p> <p>One note on this episode: I was surprised when I grabbed the file for the Rhonda Vincent interview that I found my voice distorted on it. It didn't sound like that when I produced the episode, but there's not much to do about that now. I tried to minimize how much of me you needed to hear in that excerpt, but you needed some of my fuzzy voice to give her answers context. </p> <p>If this is the first of your retrospective episodes, you can hear the first two <a href='https://twelvesongsofchristmas.podbean.com/e/looking-back-at-the-first-100-pt-1/'>here</a> and <a href='https://twelvesongsofchristmas.podbean.com/e/looking-back-at-the-first-100-pt-2/'>here</a>. </p> <p>If you haven't already done so, please do what you have to do to get Twelve Songs in your podcast feed. You can find us at <a href='https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxFUMuOwyAM_JpyaxScF3vgsJf9jYiAk6ISQGCazd8vaQ8rWbLlsT2e0YpwC-mUMWRiJWOarZEcphEGMTAje8PFIJjN85oQd2WdpFSQxbI4qxXZ4K-NcYAR2EMC14Ma8avjAMu6Kr1iu4hpGr6mtYOp7lWeWRVj0WuU-MJ0Bo_MyQdRzLfu-wY_NWIwWmXKjYrRYaPDXpsl_yO1ogPdC-85-C3fw3rXj2Qz7eqasob3negHDmN9XkILLeftyAUfe97wxpwnPOvzR7z17b5Bk8uSSennRcWSTOpwldzhb8W3S_YbqKrnmvfiLZ0zerU4NB9D6GPhWx-dEaXHIzskwvRpXr6KdupB9KyymVCveqmDN-gzmt265x_21oho'>Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href='https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUMuOwyAM_JpwjICEND1w2MtK-xURDydlSyAC0yx_v6SVLFsaP8YzRiFsMVV5xIykZEiLs5Lx28TFLIiVo2WzmInLy5oAduW8xFSAHEV7ZxS6GK6NSfCJk4dUoxVsoh