Hello, Chicago! from From W.B.E.Z. Chicago and PRX. This is sound opinions. I'm Jim De Regattis.

And I'm Greg Cot.

The holiday season is upon us,

and we're getting ready the only way we know how.

With a playlist of Christmas music

you won't hear anywhere else.

Gather around the old yule log

with Christmas music collector Andy

Serzan for our annual holiday spectacular. That's coming up on sound opinions and it is time now for our annual holiday spectacular with our friend Andy Serzan.

Andy works as a talent booker for Jam Productions, one of the last great remaining indie concert

promoters in the US, but his passion is finding the most exotic, obscure, and

otherwise overlooked and forgotten Christmas music ever.

We are truly lucky Greg that every year Andy makes a mix tape of his fines and he comes

and he shares it with us and our audience.

Andy welcome back to sound opinions.

Thank you for having me back guys like I say every year I never take it for

granted. Do you realize Andy it's been 20 years with us. This is the 20th anniversary.

I was just thinking about that driving in today. How long have you been doing this?

Well, last year was the 30th year. Often don't count the first couple because they were so amateurs. But last

year I decided to do a 30 year look back across the archives and put out what I called the hits quote unquote part one and so this year it's

the completion of that so out of like 300 songs that have been run through this series that I put together

I picked the best 10% and put 15 on last year. 15 this year and then it's on to whatever comes next.

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