The husband and wife team of Lauren and Daniel Goans perform as the folk duo Lowland Hum. In their social media, they employ the hashtag #supportquietmusic, and when you hear Lowland Hum, you can hear that "quiet" pertains as much to aesthetic and philosophical concerns as it does volume.

This spring, they'll release a new album, Glyphonic, and we talk some about that, but we focus our conversation on their 2017 album, Songs for Christmas Time. Many of the same musical ideas that shaped that album affect their non-holiday music, so we talk about how they play out. We also discuss their faith and the unexpected ways that it influences the song and arrangement choices of Songs for Christmas Time.

Over the course of this week's show, we hear music from Songs for Christmas Time and Glyphonic, as well as music from John Fahey and Johnny Cash.

During a recording session, we took a break to sing you our rendition of "Christmastime is Here." We hope your year finishes up beautifully. Thanks to Pando Creative for shooting and thanks to Edd Kerr for capturing sound. Merry Christmas!

John Fahey The New Possibility John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album - 1968 What Child Is This

"Salzburg Summer" is the first single from Glyphonic, Lowland Hum's fourth album of original material, set to be released in May of 2019. The music video was another collaboration with Pando Creative Co, shot in the countryside near Charlottesville, VA, where the band is based.

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