Various Artists Blues - Where Will You Be Christmas Day? [CD]
Where Will You Be Christmas Day?
Various Artists Blues
CD Rel Date: 2004-10-12
24 Recordings from 1917 - 1959. "Following up last year's critically acclaimed Goodbye, Babylon box set, Dust-to-Digital is proud to announce our new Holiday Series, curated by musicologist Dick Spottswood. Based on his popular radio show in Washington, D.C., our series is initiated with a Christmas Gift, a compact disc full of rare yuletide gems. Just as Goodbye, Babylon showed the many sides of gospel music, this CD shows many sides of Christmas - from Jesus born in the manger to Leroy Carr spending the holiday in jail. Some of the artists featured include Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, Butterbeans and Susie, Fiddlin' John Carson, Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers, Lightning Hopkins, Los Jibaros, Kansas City Kitty, Lead Belly, Lord Executor, Maddox Brothers and Rose, and Bessie Smith. Together they provide a stark contrast to the commercialized Christmas we know today..."
Tracklist:
- Last Month of the Year, The - Vera Hall-Ward
- Christ Was Born on Christmas Morn - Cotton Top Mountain Sanctifi
- Christmas Is A-Coming - Leadbelly
- Christmas Is a Joyful Day - The Lord Executor
- Dance Under the Willows (Tanec Pid Werbamy) - Pawlo Humeniuk
- D‚cimas de Nacimiento - Los Jibaros
- Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle (Pastorale di Natale) - Pasquale Feis
- Lady Gay - Buell Kazee
- Sherburne - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
- Holy Babe - Paul Hayes/Aaron Brown/Joe Green/Kelly Pace/Paul Hay
- He Was Born in a Manger - Reverend J.M. Gates
- Wrong Way to Celebrate Christmas, The - Reverend Edward W. Clayb
- Santa Claus - Walter Davis
- Gee, Ain't I Good to You? - McKinney's Cotton Pickers
- At the Christmas Ball - Bessie Smith
- Papa Ain't No Santa Claus (And Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree) - B
- Christmas Morning Blues - Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom
- Christmas in Jail -- Ain't That a Pain - Leroy Carr
- Christmas Morning the Rum Had Me Yawning - Lord Beginner
- Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over - Fiddlin' John Carson & His Vi
- Breaking Up Christmas - Norman Edmonds
- Happy New Year Blues - Mary Harris
- Happy New Year - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Jingle Bells - The Maddox Brothers & Rose (Bonus Track)