Question of the Week: What’s your favorite winter song?
Local Spins’ Question of the Week (Jan. 26, 2022)
What’s your favorite winter song?
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THE READER RESPONSES:
Hannah Woodruff – “Urge for Going,” Joni Mitchell
Frank Heany – “Warmer Days,” Blues Traveler
Greg Durkee – “January Hymn” by The Decemberists followed closely by “Long Cold Winter” by Cinderella
Tamarack Music Fest – “WinterTime Love,” Doors
Eric William-Neil Engblade – “Last Winter in the Copper Country,” Joshua Davis
Doug Watkins – “Winter,” Nathan Walton and the Remedy
Lee Chase – This one was easy for me: Zephyr, post Tommy Bolin. Jock Bartley on guitar; “Winter Always Finds Me”
Diann Neil Engblade – “Michigan” by Eric Engblade. Set in winter, memories of home.
Jack Jensen – “Winter” -Tori Amos, “Life in a Northern Town” – Dream Academy, “Immigrant Song” – Led Zeppelin
Paul Wyatt – “Walk Out to Winter,” Aztec Camera
Vanessa Clark – Björk – “Frosti”
Justin Wierenga – The very 1st Return to Forever album on ECM with the flying bird on the cover, Airto on drumkit. Title track “Return to Forever”
John Sinkevics – Lots of great ‘winter’ songs come to mind, including some by West Michigan artists such as Loren Johnson, Megan Dooley and J Oscar Bittinger. Lately, however, I’ve been smitten by Jethro Tull’s “Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day.” A classic.
Eric Raby II – “Next Few Winters” and “Black Ice” by Chain of Lakes
Mike Metchikoff – “River” by Joni Mitchell
Megan Dooley – “River” by Joni; “Let it Fall” by Over The Rhine. P.S., so honored to be Included on this list of winter reminders.
John Harvey – “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer”
Chad Michael Wedeven – Paul McCartney, “Footprints”; Nazz, “Under the Ice”
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