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Often our respective children are forced to camp outside for the duration so that their bedrooms can be given over to mechanical nodding reindeer, life size inflatable Santas and industrial mince pie production facilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOfficial carol-singing season chez Carthy and chez Boden is, of course, Sep 1st to Feb 1st and within that timeframe any other material is frowned upon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are some who believe that the full weight of the human need to mark the passing of the seasons with a series of regular customs throughout the year, has been overly focused in modern times upon the single folk custom of Christmas to the great detriment of the broader customary calendar and leading to the cultural overburdening of the Christmas ritual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo this we say.... baubles. Bring it on. The more Christmas the better. In fact having launched (due to Covid rescheduling) our Christmas show in July at the Union Chapel Islington, we strongly urge the adoption of a second \"hot\" Christmas so that all artificial constraints can be removed and life can at last become one long Yuletide bonanza.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith this in mind we decided that we should try to translate our Christmas obsessions to disc form. We hope it may bring you much seasonal joy and festival merriment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hudson Records","offers":[{"title":"CD.","offer_id":50395938718027,"sku":"2164105","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_a9dd35cb_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726475763"},{"product_id":"glad-christmas-comes-2","title":"Glad Christmas Comes","description":"\u003cp\u003eChristmas in the \u003cstrong\u003eCarthy\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eBoden\u003c\/strong\u003e households is a serious business. Comfort is sacrificed to ramming them chock-full of as much greenery, bling, and tat as is humanly possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOften our respective children are forced to camp outside for the duration so that their bedrooms can be given over to mechanical nodding reindeer, life-size inflatable Santas, and industrial mince pie production facilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOfficial carol-singing season chez \u003cstrong\u003eCarthy\u003c\/strong\u003e and chez \u003cstrong\u003eBoden\u003c\/strong\u003e is, of course, Sep 1st to Feb 1st and within that timeframe any other material is frowned upon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere are some who believe that the full weight of the human need to mark the passing of the seasons with a series of regular customs throughout the year has been overly focused in modern times upon the single folk custom of Christmas to the great detriment of the broader customary calendar, leading to the cultural overburdening of the Christmas ritual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo this we say.... baubles. Bring it on. The more Christmas, the better. In fact, having launched (due to Covid rescheduling) our Christmas show in July at the Union Chapel Islington, we strongly urge the adoption of a second \"hot\" Christmas so that all artificial constraints can be removed and life can at last become one long Yuletide bonanza.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith this in mind, we decided that we should try to translate our Christmas obsessions to disc form. 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The album features 12 songs written by Boden and is especially notable for its dazzling array of instrumentation, including fiddle, octave fiddle, concertina, banjo, guitars, double bass, Indian harmonium, glockenspiel, electric piano, and perhaps more unusually for a folk artist, Moog synthesiser and drum machine – all of which are played by \u003cstrong\u003eJon Boden\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere’s even Jon’s low-fi interpretation of a Whitney Houston classic, \"\u003cem\u003eI Wanna Dance (with Somebody)\u003c\/em\u003e\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Navigator","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50439028310347,"sku":"1000202","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/dc0e0036-e071-424e-80c3-89f883e3cc30_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726950482"},{"product_id":"last-mile-home","title":"Last Mile Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eChicago-born and Sheffield-based folk outlier Jon Boden's fifth solo album \u003ci\u003eLast Mile Home\u003c\/i\u003e also serves as the final piece in his post-oil trilogy of albums. \"It's been twelve years since the first of these songs made itself known, which started me off on the road to 'Songs From The Floodplain'\", Boden explains. \"Since then it's been a process of constant but gradual unfolding for me, even when my focus was elsewhere. 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Afterglow is Boden's first studio release since calling an end to Bellowhead, a 12-year project that culminated in a quarter of a million album sales and worldwide sell-out shows including the Royal Albert Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfterglow\u003c\/em\u003e follows on from Boden's 2009 solo concept-album \u003cem\u003eSongs From The Floodplain\u003c\/em\u003e, which led him to be named as Folk Singer Of The Year at the BBC Folk Awards. 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