It's that time again, and I'll be damned if those holiday yahoos aren't at it early again this year. Seriously, I try to delay posting links to holiday stuff too early. Really, you know as well as I, most holiday music, as music, blows. Good music must be useful at all times. I can't get behind a song that's relevant for only a month out of the year. A lot of you might argue that point, but really, you know it's all about how it performs as background music at get-togethers. Nevertheless, I will dutifully suck it up. You party planners have a lot of stuff on your plate, what with napkins, paper plates, keg cups, trash bags and all that red and white shit. The last thing you need to be worrying about is tracking down music. And this time of year, it's floating around in abundance. Hell, if Reverend Tom Frost re-upped one of his Bloody Christmas mixes, you know everybody's getting in on the action. (Thanks Reverend, it wouldn't be Christmas without you!) There are other sites like that, ersatz Christmas traditions. Good old dependable Big Rock Candy Mountain unleashes holiday stuff in a frenzy, multiple songs almost daily. You ought to tap that stuff.
This will get things started:
There's another mix down there, from Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban, Beat Xmas. Boy, what a mob on that one: Jack Keroac, Charlie Parker, Lord Buckley, Jim Backus, William Burroughs, Miles Davis, Hank Crawford. Like, put up your red and white shit, if that's your bag, man.
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Listen:Jimmy Reed - Christmas Present Blues mp3 at Big Rock Candy Mountain
Cordell Jackson - Be Bopper's Christmas mp3 at Big Rock Candy Mountain
Bessie Smith - At the Christmas Ball mp3 at Big Rock Candy Mountain
The mixes:
A Bloody Christmas Mix, Part 9 at Spread the Good Word 22 songs, hand picked by Rev. Tom Frost
Beat Christmas at Beware of the Blog 25 selections, music and spoken weird.
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