Midwest Midwinter Blues, by Rick Malsick with Evan Smalley

Midwest Midwinter Blues

by Rick Malsick with Evan Smalley

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1.	In The Bleak Midwinter 04:09	buy track
2.	The Christmas Tumbleweed 03:23	buy track
3.	Cantique de Noel 04:40	buy track
4.	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 02:11	buy track
5.	Hard Candy Christmas 04:16	buy track
6.	Joseph's Song 03:39	buy track
7.	Good King Wenceslas 02:44	buy track
8.	O Come All Ye Faithful 03:43	buy track
9.	Light One Candle 03:51	buy track
10.	Midwest Midwinter Blues 04:17	buy track

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Welcome to my (new) new album, Midwest Midwinter Blues.

This past summer, as we were finishing up Morning Glories, I had a thought about doing a midwinter album – not really a Christmas album, something more eclectic. I could jump start it by remixing two songs from Athena (2009): The Christmas Tumbleweed and Joseph’s Song. Both won awards at Winfield in 2008, a medal for The Christmas Tumbleweed and an alternate for Joseph’s Song. I wanted to get these songs in front of everybody, one more time, in 2016. I also wanted to record the title song, which I wrote several years ago.

So we went to work. Threw in some Christmas songs, including Cantique de Noël (in French, just for fun), a Hanukkah song, Light One Candle, and Hard Candy Christmas, from The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. We stirred them up and Voila! Midwest Midwinter Blues!

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released December 13, 2016

Rick Malsick is joined on Midwest Midwinter Blues by Evan Smalley, who did the stellar arrangements and played four or five dozen different instruments, including zithers and balalaikas. He also engineered, mixed and mastered. Tim Osburn contributed outstanding percussion, rocking hard on Midwest Midwinter Blues. Cover art by Lynn Bowes.

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