Sometimes, the date is just another day. So what that it’s Christmas?
Jim White’s cowboy altrock “Christmas Day” is a bummer of a time to travel. He was crying in a Greyhound station on Christmas Day, in 1998, but saved by a mysterious loved one who took pity.
Kye Alfred Hillig, on the other metaphor, poses “Christmas 1998” as a straight shooting reveal about how you ain’t all that. Cowboy folk this time, but still hipster pop poetry. Just less concrete.