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December 7, 2016 at 6:38 pm #56996
This should be a tradition here on Active Melody! Post your favorite Christmas Videos!
Found this one by accident.. I think this artist was featured here in a lesson as well..
Don't practice till you get it right, practice till you can't get it wrong.
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December 7, 2016 at 9:42 pm #56997
Ian Moore – One of my favorite artists.
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December 8, 2016 at 11:01 am #57019
I think Elvis did some great Christmas songs. He could even take something like White Christmas and make it his own.
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December 8, 2016 at 1:04 pm #57026
Here are two Christmas classics from Charles Brown, who also appears in this week’s Blues Roots. These are real tear-jerkers. As people always mention, the best Christmas songs are sad.
Otis Redding’s cover.
And The Nat Cole Christmas Album, featuring Mel Torme’s “The Christmas Song” (“Chestnuts roasting…”).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omBmaSMPX1oMy Mom’s favorite.
Don D.
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December 8, 2016 at 7:24 pm #57042
and for something different:
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December 8, 2016 at 8:38 pm #57043
Nice list building here! pun intended too. lol
Here is one that is a local favorite here. Being from New Orleans, we have our own way, our own dialect, our own music, and our own Christmas traditions. I am sure everyone around the world has this as well, but, no were on Earth is it like it is here. Here is a perfect example of the dialect and how it is.. lol
BTW, a “yat” is a person that lives here, more specifically from the lower ninth ward and below.. lol
Don't practice till you get it right, practice till you can't get it wrong.
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December 12, 2016 at 3:43 pm #57252
Here’s another lament, this one from Son Seals. Lyrics are posted on the YouTube page.
Don D.
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December 12, 2016 at 6:25 pm #57263
One thing led to another. There are a lot of Christmas blues, aren’t there?
“Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’,” Albert King
“Christmas on the Bayou” Lonnie Brooks, from the The Alligator Records Christmas Collection album (1992)
Sonny Boy Williamson “Santa Claus”
Lefty Dizz, “Someone Stole My Christmas.”
Don D.
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December 16, 2016 at 8:08 pm #57505
Are there ever!
More Christmas music, blues and jazz-style, from Steve Cushing at the radio show Blues Before Sunrise. The show started in Chicago, not sure exactly when, but when I visited in the mid ’90s through the early ’00s, when radio was still on the radio, any time I couldn’t sleep I’d listen. Sometimes knowing it was on was reason enough not to sleep. When I found them on the internet again, I was pleased.
Here are the MP2/MP3 programs to download. The ones dated 12/18/2016 and 12/25/2016 are the same set, both are the Christmas program.
Here’s the set list for the 12/11/2016 program and the Holiday set mentioned above. At the very bottom is host and DJ Steve Cushing’s contact information, so you can get on the mailing list and find out where it’s available near you.
Don D.
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December 19, 2016 at 9:08 am #57661
Both sides of Freddie King’s Christmas 1961 single.
Lowell Fulson’s “Lonesome Christmas” (he recorded this song for the first time in 1950, this one is sometime in the ’70s—pretty sure; the bass/chord accompaniment is similar to lesson EP083)
Little Milton’s “Lonesome Christmas” (1985)
Amos Milburn’s “Christmas Comes But Once a Year” (1960, this is the flip side of Charles Brown’s “Merry Christmas, Baby” that I posted earlier)
Clarence Carter, “Back Door Santa” (1968)
Stop me if you’ve heard enough. I’m not really a big fan of Christmas music, but most of these and the others I’ve posted transcend the genre. The two Charles Brown ones are actually meaningful to me, so much so I can’t even listen to them.
Don D.
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December 19, 2016 at 6:08 pm #57676
Great compilation as always, Don! Definitely partial to the Freddie King stuff…
As an aside, one of the local radio stations I listen to has an on-air personality who does a lot of special in-depth reporting that is featured on iHeart radio. He does a series called “The Forgotten History of Our Most Beloved Christmas Carols”. Some interesting stuff there, not necessarily blues related but learning how some songs like Silver Bells came into being. Apparently it was originally titled “Tinkle Bells” but the author’s wife schooled him on the slang (1950’s) meaning of the word “tinkle”. A simple word switcheroo later and one of the most recognizable songs was born…
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December 20, 2016 at 5:34 am #57685
And we can’t leave this one out..
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December 21, 2016 at 9:00 am #57740
I love blues badly, but this is the best christmas song ever made
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