Winter Songs
Your memories of the season, inspired by music.
Joanna Woodbury and her husband spent a trying winter waiting to know if their adoption of an Ethiopian child would become final. During that time, she says, a song by Brandi Carlile took on new resonance.
Recent Winter Songs
February 9, 2012 Among the hundreds of songs that remind listeners of winter, one name keeps coming up: Paul Simon.
January 31, 2012 Alice and Burt Swersey say the composer helped pave the way for their five decades of marriage.
January 23, 2012 In Minnesota, listener Veronica Horton made her own fun by dancing to Ernie Ford's classic song.
!["It's always hard to tell exactly what [R.E.M.'s] Michael Stipe is singing about," says NPR listener and novelist Thomas Mullen.](http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/01/13/83445347_sq-a16b07d3033e1d4971902b5e8052edabbe24cf5f-s1.jpg "\"It's always hard to tell exactly what [R.E.M.'s] Michael Stipe is singing about,\" says NPR listener and novelist Thomas Mullen.")
January 13, 2012 "Sweetness Follows" helped novelist Thomas Mullen through his family's financial ruin.
January 16, 2012 The late 19th century British Arctic explorer was many things, but not actually a lord.
December 13, 2011 For the latest in a series, choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones shares a memorable winter song.
December 8, 2011 Last week, we asked listeners to submit their favorite winter songs, and the submissions flooded in.
December 1, 2011 Must a winter song be cold and depressing? Or can it be like a space heater on a chilly night?
December 1, 2011 For novelist Ann Patchett, moving away from California turned a classic song into a prayer for home.
