So here, if you dare, is “Little Town of Bethlemayhem.Christmas music: It’s unavoidable now, infiltrating our radio stations, dominating our streaming services, and pumped into department stores like a narcotic, gingerbread-tinged gas. In this age of the selfie, Facebook narcissism and the president elect putting his family business ahead of public interest, I too will risk all decorum and taste by including a track by my band TriBeCaStan, from our 2015 yuletide EP Coal Again. They say if you want something done right you’ve got to do it yourself.Īlthough there are quite a few of timeless gems listed above, I felt the only way to survive this holiday season was by reinventing some of these haunting old war horses myself. The song’s shimmering electronic coda is sure to take you for a wild trip down Candy-Cane Lane. While his eight-minute rambling monologue at the “X-Mess Singalong Yuletide Disaster Pageant” recorded at the Bowery Ballroom, NYC on 22/12/12 (see “That Was The Worst Christmas Ever!”) borders on surreal, it’s his mind-warping, “hysterically American” “Christmas Unicorn” (released November 13th, 2012) that steals the fruitcake.
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Just play the whole thing!Īpparently singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens is obsessed with Christmas and has been recording an on-going series of yuletide songs for years. From the title track with Tom Waits, to “Joy to the World” with Aaron Neville, “Away in a Manger” with George Clinton and Robert Randolph to the downbeat “In the Bleak Midwinter” with Chrissie Hynde and Richard Thompson. It’s impossible to pick a best of track off The Blind Boys of Alabama’s 2005 holiday disc Go Tell It On the Mountain. Redbone’s album also featured a remake of the Andrew Sisters’ 1947 recording of “Christmas Island.” Complete with weepy steel guitar, the campy Pacific fantasy begs the question, “How’d you like to hang your stocking on a great big coconut tree? While Ernest Tubb’s version from his 1964 album Blue Christmas is quite good, the top track on that collection remains “Trimming My Christmas Tree with Tear Drops,” as Tubbs moans “There’ll be no Merry Christmas this year.” Released on Redbone’s 1990 Christmas Island the mumbling crooner, Redbone and good Doctor trade verses recalling the fate of the doomed yet gleeful snowman, who, although rapidly melting under a strong winter sun, promises the kids “I’ll be back again someday!” Over-the-years become a seasonal must-see, along with Art Carney as the magical drunken Santa Claus in the classic Twilight Zone episode Night of the Meek.
Years ago when I sneaked this platter onto the turntable at one of my mother’s annual Christmas parties, she immediately glared at me and snapped, “Turn that off! It’s ruining everything!”Īlthough it’s not officially Christmas until I watch Porky Pig stutter through “Blue Christmas,” the video to Leon Redbone and Dr. Produced by Violent Femmes’ original drummer, Victor DeLorenzo, the music of this legendary Milwaukee trio surprisingly featured no drums.
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She’s been below the radar long enough.”Īn uneasy marriage of Albert Ayler-style free jazz by way of Peter Balestrieri’s honking, skronking alto sax, with Geoff Worman’s whacked whammy bar surf guitar, all anchored down by Tim Taylor’s edgy, growling, bass (think Bill Wyman/1965 era Rolling Stones). I’m thrilled she’s finally in the Hall of Fame. The stores pulled it right off the rack, but it has stood the test of time. Who cares? But as you see, guess who won that one? She didn’t really care. Columbia Records warned her ‘If you put the word ‘Christmas’ on the record cover it’s going to come right off the shelf as soon as the holiday season is over.’ I said, ‘Laura, what are you doing? Everyone is gonna think it’s a Christmas album! Take the damn name off it. “We all got out there at times, but that’s where she lived! Even the name of her album was trouble. I would tell her, ‘Darling, some of us would like to make a living around here,” the Rascal’s keyboardist and Nyro’s producer, Felix Cavaliere laughed. She had absolutely no desire to sell product. “Laura was the purest artist I’ve ever met. Nyro’s “Christmas In My Soul” (from her 1970 release Christmas and the Beads of Sweat) transcends the realm of seasonal listening.
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