Have Yourself A Country Little Christmas

Here is one of last year's two CD-length mixes. This one focuses on country, western swing, bluegrass and folk music. (In two days, I'll post the other mix from '07, focusing on blues and soul.)

I had a hard time whittling this down to one CD's worth of music. At the earliest stage, I had almost three hours of music to pick from, all songs on the theme which I loved. (The second mix was a little easier to choose from -- I only had to delete about half an hour from that one.) I'm well aware this is a totally subjective collection of "country" Christmas music -- you'll notice there's not one note, not one second of "new country" -- the only hitmakers on this CD recorded back in the 60's or earlier. That's MY country music.

Tracklist:

01. George Jones - My Mom and Santa Claus
02. Tennessee Ernie Ford (with The Mellomen featuring Thurl Ravenscroft) - A Root'n Toot'n Santa Claus
03. Asleep At The Wheel - Santa Loves To Boogie
04. Whit Hill and John Latini - Going With My Cousin To See Santa At The Mall
05. Bill Monroe And His Bluegrass Boys - Christmas Time's A Comin'
06. Earl Scruggs - Jingle Bells
07. Jerry Webb - Christmas Time On The County Line
08. John Fahey - In The Bleak Midwinter
09. Bobby Goldsboro - Look Around You (It's Christmas)
10. The Wailers - Christmas Spirit
11. Bill Kelly - Here Comes Christmas
12. Del McCoury - Call Collect On Christmas
13. Roger Christian - Little Mary Christmas
14. Woody Guthrie - Hannukah Dance (alternate take)
15. Brigid Kaelin - Mazel Tonk
16. Mindy Smith - My Holiday
17. Nancy Hanson - All Wrapped Up
18. Michael Bishop - Rock-A-Billy Christmas
19. Mark Jungers and The Whistling Mules - The Christmas Song
20. Brenda Lee - I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus
21. Hank Snow - Reindeer Boogie
22. Johnny Horton - They Shined Up Rudolph's Nose
23. Holly Golightly - Christmas Tree's On Fire
24. Jimmy Martin - Old-Fashioned Christmas
25. Ernest Tubb - Merry Texas Christmas You All
26. Johnny Cash - Blue Christmas
27. Trainwreck Riders - Christmas Time Blues

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