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Season’s Greetings! Wishing all of you the best of the rest of this year and a happy, healthy, productive 2023! If this sounds a little familiar, it is.
Lightnin’ Hopkins had quite a few Christmas songs
1953
1953
1962
1964
Robert Nighthawk 1964
Lowell Fulson
Ray Charles
Charles Brown (see full album at bottom)
Amos Milburn
Chuck Berry
Freddie King
Don’t miss this one…
Lester Williams (“Winter without your baby, you might as well be dead”)
Smokey Hogg
John Lee Hooker
Eddie C. Campbell
Lefty Dizz
Sonny Boy Williamson (the second Sonny Boy, Aleck Rice Miller)
Koko Taylor
Sonny Rhodes
Finis Tasby with Enrico Crivellaro
Etta James
Rosco Gordon
Albert King
B.B. King (see album at bottom)
Clarence Carter
Willie “Big Eyes” Smith
Paul Oscher
Carey Bell
Cephas & Wiggins
Canned Heat’s Christmas album…
Canned Heat’s “Christmas Boogie”
Little Ed and the Blues Imperials
Kenny Neal
Jimmy Witherspoon
Charles Brown’s Christmas Album
B.B. King A Christmas Celebration of Hope
Leroy Carr was a pianist and songwriter (“How Long, How Long,” “Blues Before Sunrise” among others), who lived a short but very productive life. Although this is an oversimplification and a generality, his music was largely responsible for the modernization and sophistication of the blues (he often teamed up with master guitarist Scrapper Blackwell, like on this song). Here’s a sad Christmas song from him.
Same title but a much lighthearted take, a whole different song.
Here’s a rocking Christmas song from the great Billy Boy Arnold.
Here’s another rocker from the Drifters.
Jimmy Liggins and His Drops of Joy
Mabel Scott with Les Welch and His Orchestra
Frankie Lymon
Big Joe Turner with Pete Johnson and His Orchestra
Little Esther & Mel Walker with Johnny Otis’ Congregation
A very nice Christmassy R&B playlist
A sweet old one from Queen Victoria Spivey to close things up, sounds like her regular partner, Lonnie Johnson, on guitar.
Don D.
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