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River

by John Hamilton

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River seems an unlikely entry into the Christmas standards list: a Christmas song that isn’t about Christmas. Yes, it borrows a Christmas-time-of-year setting and the piano mimics Jingle Bells. But there isn’t any celebratory anticipation, any holiday cheer, none of the stock characters from either secular songs or sacred hymns. So why does it resonate?

It may do this, in part, because there is a flip side to Christmas that isn’t jolly, isn’t celebratory. We are surrounded by the ghosts of Christmas Past, those we have lost, those from whom we are separated. They hover in the air every bit as much as Jingle Bells. We would have to skate a far way, indeed, to escape them.

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released December 9, 2022

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John Hamilton Richmond, Massachusetts

Vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and multi-genre songwriter, living in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.

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