Christmas time is most certainly comin’ and it brings with it what is turning out to be a Charlottesville holiday getaway custom as the Gravity Lounge and Magnus Tunes current Sarah White’s 5th Annual Country Xmas Present on Tuesday, December 23. Doors open up at 8pm. $10. ($7 if you deliver a donation of canned good for the Thomas Jefferson Area Foods Financial institution). “This means a lot more space for dancing, more tables for sitting, and much more area to hang up all those twinkling lighting and tinsel that are the correct that means of Xmas,” says White. Sian, Jim, and Sarah ended up kind ample to take a couple of holiday break-connected questions and they had been added kind sufficient to give solutions to them all. Here’s a sampling of what we find out: Jim has a gentle spot for gingerbread, Sian loves twinkle lighting, and each yr Sarah’s mother gives her a stocking crammed with schwag. I’ll see you guys on Tuesday. You, dear reader, should make a level of getting there also!The Sunday coffee still warm. Listening to Leonard Cohen on this the shortest day of the yr as “Why Don’t You Try” awakens my slumbering stereo. Enable me to add just just one a lot more to that checklist. The Mountain hits merchants on February three, 2009 on Excessive fat Possum Records. It was just one of my fellow AmericanaRoots.com writers, Don Henry Ford, Jr., who brought these guys to my consideration just after he wrote about the working experience of viewing them open for Lucinda Williams in March of 2007. My 2nd chance to see them live is only six weeks away. I’m counting..