Back in 2004, when I first joined Shore Fire, we all got LL Bean coats for Christmas. It was an amazing present! (Thank you, Santa!) At this point, I don’t wear it regularly anymore. But when temperatures dipped into the single digits this week, followed by snow and a forecast for more, I grabbed it from my closet. Check out that old-school Shore Fire logo!
Here’s a pic of me (beardless!) in early 2006 w/ James Hunter and GO Records’ Steven Erdman, wearing the then-new coat:
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Josh’s post got me thinking of unconventional, not actually holiday songs that remind me of the holidays, and the one that always pops into my mind is The Jayhawks version of Victoria Williams’ “Lights.” It’s a gorgeous take on the song, and the chorus of “the lights on the city looked so good, almost like somebody thought they would” makes me think of the lights sprouting up all over NYC during the holidays, like someone suddenly realized that they always needed to be there.
Here’s a cool acoustic version of the song with Gary Louis, Mark Olson and Victoria:
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We kicked off 2012 with a pretty intense month of January, Shore Fire's most successful January on record, actually! So what better way to relax while still being productive than bringing the beauty salon to us? The kind ladies of our Brooklyn … continued
