In what has become a time honored tradition, my wife and I spend the first Saturday morning in December wrestling with a Christmas ... music. Listen as he breaks down several of the new songs ...

And while their albums are all different from each other, there is a thread of musical commonality within them: R&B roots, soaring vocals, strong bass, and often a Christian theme to the lyrics.

12Tone, the fast-talking, quick-doodling music theorist, explained how the classic Ukrainian folk song ... christmas-y, but an important thing to understand here is that, in pre-Christian ...