Wizards of Winter, and Faith Hill’s “A Baby Changes Everything”

Today host Alex Rawls talks to Scott Kelly, who started The Wizards of Winter to play a tribute to Trans-Siberian Orchestra as a benefit for a local food bank. Kelly talks about the aesthetics of prog-rock Christmas music, and the challenge of finding the right people to play it. 

The Wizards of Winter will be on tour performing their holiday rock opera "Tales Beneath a Northern Star" through the end of the year. 

In the second segment, Alex talks to Nashville songwriter Jim McCormick, who Alex profiled in 2012 when he had back to back number one records with Brantley Gilbert's "You Don't Know Her Like I Do" and Jason Aldean's "Take a Little Ride." McCormick talks with some envy about "A Baby Changes Everything" from Faith Hill's 2008 Joy to the World. They discuss the song--which Alex pairs with The New Pornographers' "Joseph Who Understood"--and discuss what comes with singing Christmas songs. 

Video for Spirit of Christmas from The Wizards of Winter CD " The Magic of Winter"

Provided to YouTube by Warner Music Group A Baby Changes Everything · Faith Hill Joy To The World ℗ 2008 Warner Bros. Records Inc. for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.

Another amazing rare track by The New Pornographers...this one a lovely Christmas song. I thought it deserved to be shared with the internet people, though of course it does not belong to me and is in fact the property of The New Pornographers and Matador Records.