My wife gave me two records for Christmas, the first was She and Him's Christmas album, which I could take or leave. The second was Tweedy's Suckierae -it's my favorite album of 2014
I've got a Chet Atkins Christmas album that's been on high rotation of late. I'm glad you dug Sukierae, I think it has the best and most effective opening track I've heard. It's so damned appealing and just short enough to leave you wanting more. What a great way to open an album IMO. I could go on and on about that record, I've been listening to it quite a lot.
I've been on a Damien Rice kick lately -- you know him?Rice began his musical career as a member of the 1990s rock group Juniper, which were signed to Polygram Records in 1997. The band enjoyed moderate success with a couple of single releases, but a projected album foundered because of record company politics. After leaving the band he worked as a farmer in Tuscany and busked throughout Europe before returning to Ireland in 2001 and beginning a solo musical career.