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Season’s Greetings! If you haven’t heard Freddie King’s “Christmas Tears” yet, it’s waiting for you below. Wishing all of you the best of the rest of this year and a happy, healthy, productive 2021!
Lightnin’ Hopkins had quite a few Christmas songs
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1953
1962
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”)
John Lee Hooker
Eddie C. Campbell
Sonny Boy Williamson (the second Sonny Boy, Aleck Rice Miller)
Koko Taylor
Sonny Rhodes
Finis Tasby with Enrico Crivellaro
Etta James
Rosco Gordon
Little Milton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Kq0UNmn0YAlbert 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
Charles Brown’s Christmas Album
B.B. King A Christmas Celebration of Hope
Meanwhile, in case you’ve listened to all the ones above, here are a few more.
Blind Blake
Charley Jordan
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.
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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