{"id":802469,"date":"2019-12-19T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=376161"},"modified":"2019-12-19T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T21:00:00","slug":"the-geiger-counter-ullr-fest-brought-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/the-geiger-counter-ullr-fest-brought-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Geiger Counter: Ullr Fest brought the snow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018A Family Christmas\u2019 by Jars of Clay and SHEL<\/strong><\/p>\n

I may be the only millennial who doesn\u2019t listen to Spotify on a daily basis because I still prefer my iPod and owning physical media. Those habits change, however, as the holidays near, and I load up my eclectic and ever-growing Christmas playlist that has more than 40 hours of songs and a dozen or so genres.<\/p>\n

I curate based on the album\u2019s uniqueness (hello, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Jimmy Buffett and Sufjan Stevens), trim away a few repeats (I don\u2019t need 20 different versions of \u201cThe Christmas Song\u201d) and eliminate all recordings of \u201cBaby, It\u2019s Cold Outside.\u201d I don\u2019t care if in historical context it wasn\u2019t a creepy song, it sounds creepy today and just frankly isn\u2019t that great.<\/p>\n

A new addition to the playlist this year is \u201cA Family Christmas,\u201d a six-track EP made by Christian rock band Jars of Clay and Colorado-born folk band SHEL. I don\u2019t recall listening to Jars of Clays songs before, but having seen SHEL numerous times in Fort Collins and Alamosa, it\u2019s safe to say they\u2019re one of my favorite bands.<\/p>\n

SHEL \u2014 which stands for the band members\/sisters\u2019 names of Sarah, Hannah, Eva and Liza Holbrook \u2014 has done a handful of Christmas tracks before, like \u201cToyland\u201d and \u201cI saw Three Ships,\u201d but this EP adds a few more original songs along with classics.<\/p>\n

The harmonies of the sisters and four men on \u201cAuld Lang Syne\u201d and \u201cGo Tell it on the Mountain\u201d are rich and layered while Eva\u2019s airy voice creates a hauntingly beautiful \u201cWhat Child is This.\u201d The two bands blended well, yet I also enjoyed being able to isolate Hannah\u2019s keys, Eva\u2019s mandolin, Sarah\u2019s fiddle and Liza\u2019s percussion. The album feels like a cozy and intimate concert in one\u2019s holiday home.<\/p>\n

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\u2018A Family Christmas\u2019 by Jars of Clay and SHEL I may be the only millennial who doesn\u2019t listen to Spotify on a daily basis because I still prefer my iPod and owning physical media. Those habits change, however, as the holidays near, and I load up my eclectic and ever-growing Christmas playlist that has more […]<\/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":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-802469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-30 03:32:13","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}