{"id":66306,"date":"2020-12-15T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=66306"},"modified":"2020-12-14T11:05:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T11:05:40","slug":"essential-advent-calendar-december-15-lauren-calves-original-song-christmas-is-where-the-heart-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/12\/essential-advent-calendar-december-15-lauren-calves-original-song-christmas-is-where-the-heart-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Advent Calendar: December 15 &#8211; Lauren Calve&#8217;s Original Song &#8220;Christmas Is Where The Heart Is&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Americana storyteller, singer, and songwriter Lauren Calve released her original holiday track, \u201cChristmas Is Where The Heart Is\u201d back in November, but we&#8217;ve held off talking about it, because we felt it deserved a spot in our Essential Advent Calendar.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Christmas Is Where The Heart Is&#8217; is a take on the classic proverb, \u201chome is where the heart is,\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2019Christmas Is Where The Heart Is\u2019 contains the same message,\u201d says Calve.\u00a0 \u201cChristmas, like home, is nothing without the bonds of family and friends. But oftentimes these bonds are strained or broken when there\u2019s a death in the family or a close friend moves away.\u00a0 Christmas is a time to expand the heart to feel all of the light and dark that comes with being human; it\u2019s a time to love, mourn and forgive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/7yeEk2YhXTFiyISXwXcn5T\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The holiday song furthers the themes that Calve explores on her &#8216;Wildfire&#8217; EP, released on June 23, which can be streamed and downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/sym.ffm.to\/vba9xnk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0On &#8216;Wildfire&#8217;, Calve delves into interesting territory as she uses memorable imagery and meter to write about complex issues. Her song &#8216;Better Angels&#8217; was written after listening to a radio interview with Jon Meacham who cited Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s inaugural address as inspiration for his book, &#8216;The Soul of America: The Battle For Our Better Angels&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The words \u201cbetter angels\u201d has been a common theme this year with everyone from Michelle Obama to Andrew Cuomo mentioning them in speeches, and now with Joe Biden citing \u201cbetter angels\u201d in his acceptance speech.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMeacham applied Lincoln\u2019s message of \u2018the better angels of our nature\u2019 to the courage of the American people who dealt with the unprecedented crises\u00a0of their era,\u2019\u201d says Calve.\u00a0 \u201cLincoln&#8217;s words still hold a powerful resonance, and they gave me a deep hope that I hadn\u2019t felt in years. \u2018Better Angels\u2019 was born from that surge of hope and optimism.\u00a0 It was a reminder that we would always rise to the occasion, no matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lauren Calve\u2019s musical compositions blend blues and Americana, guitar and lap steel, but their strength lies in how they go beyond tradition into innovative melodies, structures and arrangements that define their originality.\u00a0 Her lyrics, intonation, and songwriting resonate with the listener leaving them to ponder what they\u2019ve just heard and wanting more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americana storyteller, singer, and songwriter Lauren Calve released her original holiday track, \u201cChristmas Is Where The Heart Is\u201d back in November, but we&#8217;ve held off talking about it, because we felt it deserved a spot in our Essential Advent Calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3768,7,21453],"tags":[26641,3938,24953,77,370,3787],"class_list":["post-66306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","category-music","category-new-singles","tag-christmas-is-where-the-heart-is","tag-essential-advent-calendar","tag-lauren-calve","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-the-essential-advent-calendar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-hfs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":79096,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2022\/12\/the-essential-advent-calendar-december-18-uk-pop-artist-lauren-amour-releases-christmas-song-please-santa\/","url_meta":{"origin":66306,"position":0},"title":"The Essential Advent Calendar: December 18 &#8211; 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