Bill Huot's 2004 - 2005 - 2006 Samplers
Our next three Christmas comps come from above the 49th parallel yet again - O Canada... Bill's home and native land! Bill Huot of Victoria, British Columbia sent us this rustic trio of Christmas samplers last year at the P.O. Box in one package and a separate letter of explanation. It was the first of only two times that I sat transfixed in the parking lot of the Fort Wayne main post office reading and reviewing the contents of the package, the extensive liner notes of each comp, and accompanying letter. Bill's letter of intro read as follows: "I just discovered your website yesterday, after discovering Lee Hartsfeld 's site last week. I am not very familiar with the world of blogs and Internet file-sharing. "I have been putting together Christmas compilations since 1995 as an alternative to buying Christmas cards. "I became interested in the history of the songs themselves, and in the unique (I don't use that word lightly) place that this m...