{"id":973880,"date":"2019-12-05T01:50:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T08:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=922522"},"modified":"2019-12-05T01:50:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T08:50:36","slug":"hear-sharon-van-etten-cover-christmas-classic-silent-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/hear-sharon-van-etten-cover-christmas-classic-silent-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Sharon Van Etten Cover Christmas Classic \u2018Silent Night\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/shutterstock_editorial_10333563az.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sharon-van-etten\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sharon-van-etten\" data-tag=\"sharon-van-etten\">Sharon Van Etten<\/a> has released a cover of Christmas song \u201cSilent Night.\u201d The singer\u2019s take on the holiday classic was originally recorded for Eric Paschal Johnson\u2019s short film&nbsp;<em>The Letter<\/em> and has a moody, introspective vibe. The song is available exclusively via Amazon Music <a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/albums\/B081SBCPYP?ref=dm_ew_al_0_0_ctl_MzFtD6J688\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Van Etten recently appeared in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sharon-van-etten-new-doc-departure-890505\/\">Amazon Music documentary<\/a>, <i>Departure,<\/i> which captured the singer leaving New York City, her home of 15 years. The film captures Van Etten\u2019s final days in the city, where she played her last performance as a New Yorker at Webster Hall on May 4th, before moving to Los Angeles. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to hate New York to leave it,\u201d she told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> of the documentary. \u201cIt will always be there, it will always be changing. I\u2019ll go back. It might be more of a see later and not so much of a goodbye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The musician\u2019s most recent album, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/sharon-van-etten-remind-me-tomorrow-pop-songs-from-the-edge-780111\/\">Remind Me Tomorrow<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>dropped in January. She has since collaborated with Jeff Goldblum on his second album, <em>I<\/em>&nbsp;<i>Shouldn\u2019t Be Telling You This,&nbsp;<\/i>providing vocals for a jazz-inspired version of Irving Berlin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sharon-van-etten-jeff-goldblum-lets-face-the-music-and-dance-884909\/\">\u201cLet\u2019s Face The Music And Dance.\u201d<\/a> The pair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jeff-goldblum-sharon-van-etten-jimmy-kimmel-914326\/\">performed the track<\/a> on <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/em> last month.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sharon-van-etten-silent-night-922522\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharon Van Etten has released a cover of Christmas song \u201cSilent Night.\u201d The singer\u2019s take on the holiday classic was originally recorded for Eric Paschal Johnson\u2019s short film&nbsp;The Letter and has a moody, introspective vibe. The song is available exclusively via Amazon Music here. Van Etten recently appeared in an Amazon Music documentary, Departure, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 09:52:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}