Latest Christmas collection from the Parchment family

 Here is this year's Christmas playlist. 40 great Christmas songs with a folky feel in the spirit of Parchment. Surprisingly, Parchment never wrote any Christmas songs although they did release a version of "Working Man", which was written by their predecessors, Trinity Folk, However River, the singing group brought together 30 years later by Sue McClellan, sang lots of Christmas related songs and most of them are in this collection, now, in videos which we have made.

This includes a new video, mashing up River's Christus Natus with Parchment's Light of the World. As there are few photos either from River or from Parchment's Shamblejam period, we have used AI to generate more images. 

Morning Songs

 Here is our new Youtube playlist of morning songs.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8335k4fNsIhrqsmzp5oyueV1W403TLiE

Over the course of this year we've posted several new videos, using some stunning film and photos, and these lead off the playlist.

They include a mash up of both recorded versions of Light Up the Fire, also known, of course as "Colours of Day".

There is a song from Sue McClellan's turn of the century group River. Their second album was called Rise Like the Sun but does not, actually contain, any morning songs that I could identify. It does have terrific watercolour artwork which mirrors the astonishing sunset on Parchment's Hollywood Sunset. (More on the "River parallels" later perhaps). The song itself was recorded on their first album Praise Him in the Streets.

"Morning Sky" from Shamblejam could not be missed, nor could the second track on Light Up the Fire, "Till the Morning Comes". 

We have omitted other songs which refer to the morning, such as "You are my morning", the single from Hollywood Sunset, because we don't think they are actually about the morning. 

It's a great watch for a lazy weekend breakfast and alongside our new videos there are plenty of classics. Ideas for additions welcome!