The ambitious new album from the Canadian songwriter features thoughtful and transformative interpretations of traditional music. It is both a meditation on the past and a novel step forward.
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My sister and I have always enjoyed the piano music of George Winston. It may not be everybody’s cup of tea, being in sort of a contemporary New Age jazz style, nevertheless we like it. One of George Winston’s best known albums is from 1982 called
December. It tries to convey the mood of the season both in terms of its starkness and hopefulness.
One of the songs on the album is called “Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head” collected by John Jacob Niles. In the liner notes by George Winston, he notes it is “originally an Appalachian carol of the 1800s.”