The shades of night are lifting

Today’s music isn’t Advent, or Christmas-related, but it is seasonal.

I probably first heard “Song for a Winter’s Night” soon after it came out on Gordon Lightfoot’s The Way I Feel album. He apparently wrote it while in Cleveland in the summer, so I suppose it was antidote to everything around him.

Lightfoot’s was the definitive recording for me for a long time, but I’ve recently taken a shine to Sarah MacLachlan’s cover. It somehow seems more hushed and filled with snow. They’re both Canadians, so they know their winter’s.

I’ll give you both and let you choose your preference.