Artist	Song	Buy
Sting	You Only Cross My Mind In Winter
from If On a Winter's Night... (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
Sarah McLachlan	Song for a Winter's Night
from Wintersong (2005)
Brandi Carlile	The Heartache Can Wait
from Winter Songs (2008)
The Mamas & The Papas	California Dreamin'
from The Mamas & The Papas Greatest Hits (1998)
Joshua Radin	Winter
from We Were Here (2007)
Tori Amos	Winter
from Little Earthquakes (2007)
Iron & Wine	Faded from the Winter
from The Creek Drank the Cradle (2002)
Death Cab for Cutie	The Ice Is Getting Thinner
from Narrow Stairs (2008)
The Dream Academy	Life In a Northern Town
from The Dream Academy (2005)
The White Stripes	In the Cold, Cold Night
from Elephant (2003)
Wings	Winter Rose/Love Awake
from Back to the Egg (2010)
Björk	Vökuró
from Medulla (2004)
Joni Mitchell	River
from Blue (2007)
Enya	And Winter Came
from And Winter Came (2008)
Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson	Winter Song
from Winter Songs (2008)
Elliott Smith	Angel In the Snow
from New Moon (2007)
Annie Lennox	Cold
from The Annie Lennox Collection (2009)
Badly Drawn Boy	Camping Next to Water
from The Hour of Bewilderbeast (2000)
Belle and Sebastian	The Fox In the Snow
from If You’re Feeling Sinister (1998)
Bright Eyes	Patient Hope in New Snow
from A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 (1998)
Mazzy Star	Rhymes of an Hour
from Among My Swan (1996)
Willie Nelson	Moonlight In Vermont
from Stardust (1999)
Kate Bush	King of the Mountain
from Aerial (2010)
Sarah Vaughan	Snowbound
from Jazz Profile: Sarah Vaughan (1998)
Johnny Cash	The Blizzard
from Sings the Ballads of the True West (2002)
The Spinanes	Winter on Ice
from Strand (1996)
Suzanne Vega	Cracking
from Suzanne Vega (1986)
David Gray	December
from A New Day At Midnight (2002)
Kool & the Gang	Winter Sadness
from Hollywood Swinging (1995)
Hank Williams	At the First Fall of Snow
from The Original Singles Collection . . . Plus (1990)
Cowboy Junkies	Winter's Song
from Black Eyed Man (1992)
Neil Finn	Sweet Secret Peace
from A Winter's Night (2005)
Bebel Gilberto	Winter
from Bebel Gilberto (2007)
Gillian Welch	Winter's Come and Gone
from Hell Among the Yearlings (1998)
Lori Carson	Snow Come Down
from Everything I Touch Runs Wild (2006)
Sarah Brightman	Colder Than Winter
from A Winter Symphony (2008)
Eels	Dead of Winter
from Electro-Shock Blues (1998)
Jane Siberry	Hockey
from Bound By the Beauty (2010)
Linda Ronstadt	Winter Light
from Dedicated to the One I Love (2009)
Nanci Griffith	Shaking Out the Snow
from Clock Without Hands (2008)
Natalie Merchant	Frozen Charlotte
from Ophelia (2006)
Eleventh Dream Day	Ice Storm
from Stalled Parade (2000)
Neutral Milk Hotel	Snow Song, Pt. 1
from Everything Is - EP (2001)
Queen	A Winter's Tale
from Made In Heaven (1995)
Turtle Island String Quartett	Winter / Mvt. I - Thin Ice
from The Hamburg Concert (2001)
Turtle Island String Quartett	Winter / Mvt. II - Texas Rain
from The Hamburg Concert (2001)
Turtle Island String Quartett	Winter / Mvt. III - Snow What
from The Hamburg Concert (2001)
Stan Getz	Winter Moon
from Verve Jazz Masters 53: Stan Getz Bossa Nova (1996)
Bright Eyes	If Winter Ends
from Letting Off the Happiness (1998)
Bill Evans	Skating in Central Park
from Undercurrent (2002)
Caesars	Winter Song
from Paper Tigers (2005)
Galaxie 500	Listen, the Snow Is Falling
from This Is Our Music (1990)
Enya	Amid the Falling Snow
from Amarantine (2005)
Yo La Tengo	Winter A-Go-Go
from Summer Sun (2003)
Steve Miller Band	Winter Time
from Greatest Hits 1974-78 (2006)
Harry Chapin	Winter Song
from Sniper & Other Love Songs (2005)
Over the Rhine	Snowed In With You
from Snow Angels (Bonus Track Version) (2008)
Björk	Aurora
from Vespertine (2004)
Laura Nyro	December's Boudoir
from Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (2002)
Joni Mitchell	Urge for Going
from Songs of a Prairie Girl (2005)
Nada Surf	Blizzard of '77
from Let Go (2003)
Duran Duran	Winter Marches On
from Notorious (1993)
Daniel Lanois	Ice
from Acadie (Goldtop Edition) (2008)
Alison Krauss	Winter of a Broken Heart
from I've Got That Old Feeling (2009)
Tanita Tikaram	Heart In Winter
from Sentimental (2005)
Cocteau Twins	Ice-Pulse
from Lullabies to Violaine, Vol. 2 (2007)
The Cure	Winter (Three Imaginary Boys Studio Outtake 10/78)
from Three Imaginary Boys (Deluxe Edition) (2008)
Buffalo Tom	Frozen Lake
from Let Me Come Over (1997)
Animal Collective	Winters Love
from Sung Tongs (2004)
Sufjan Stevens	Sister Winter
from Songs for Christmas (2006)
Mark Eitzel	Snowbird
from Music for Courage and Confidence (2002)
Cowboy Junkies	December Skies
from Early 21st Century Blues (2005)
The Bats	Around You Like Snow
from Couchmaster (2004)
Francois-Joël Thiollier	Children's Corner Suite: I. The Snow Is Dancing
from Debussy: Clair de Lune and Other Piano Favorites (2004)
Neil Diamond	Meditations On a Winter Night
from A Cherry Cherry Christmas (2009)

Comment:

It's a time that cries out for the comfort of music, those dreary days when the sun gives no warmth, the trees no color or shade, and when all you really want is to stay inside, wrapped up warm and cozy with a special someone and the lovely, lyrical sounds of our [i]Melancholy Winter[/i] Essentials. It all begins with Sarah McLachlan's gorgeous ode to fireside desire, "Song for a Winter's Night," before moving on to a winter soundscape sprinkled with intimate and offbeat Christmas tunes (Neil Finn's "Sweet Secret Peace"), Brazilian-spiced jazz heaters (Stan Getz's glowing "Winter Moon"), and atmospheric alt-pop (Caesars' "Winter Song"). From the high-lonesome wail of country godfather Hank Williams and "At the First Fall of Snow" to the low-lit flame of Tanita Tikaram's smoky "Heart In Winter," these are the songs to see you sweetly to spring and beyond.

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