One might assume that a guy who released two completely different five-disc collections of Christmas music might have exhausted his supply of holiday verities by now. Well, Sufjan Stevens still had something up his sleeve. This song was written in response to a submission by Alec Duffy, "Every Day Is Christmas," made to his Xmas Song Xchange Contest in 2007. Stevens recorded both songs but didn't release them, only playing them at listening events. Now, for 2018, he's released both songs as a single to benefit the nonprofit performance space JACK that is run by Duffy. The third song is a newly recorded version of Stevens' song, performed as a duet with Melissa Mary Ahern, and this new recording is the pick of the three songs, though Duffy's tune is a nice earnest expression of holiday verities.
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