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CHRISTMAS 2002
Christmas comes but once a year! American Routes digs into a bag of sound that’s been a year in the filling to bring you Christmas and seasonal music of the up, down, and off-beat variety we hope you’ve come to count on from (not) Saint Nick and the crew. Plus Chuck Siler, a museum curator and visual artist, tells us about his experience as a black Santa in 1968. Keep a cool Yule.
HOUR ONE
- Christmas day Detroit Junior
Christmas Party with Eddie G., Sony - Christmas Boogie The Davis Sisters
Hillbilly Holiday, Rhino - INTERVIEW: Robert Earl Keen
Listen - Happy Holidays Y'all Robert Earl Keen
Walking Distance, Arista - Cool Yule Louis Armstrong & the Commanders
What a Wonderful Christmas, Hip-O - A Party For Santa Claus Lord Nelson
Xmas Marks The Spot, Ryko - Blue Xmas Miles Davis
Jingle Bell Jazz, Columbia - Aguinaldo Jibaro Familia Colon with Edwin Colon
Folk Masters, Folkways - Instrumental: Silent Night The Asylum St. Spankers
A Christmas Spanking, Bloodshot - Silent Night Low
Low Christmas, Kranky - River Joni Mitchell
Blue, Reprise - Instrumental: Linus and Lucy Vince Guaraldi Trio
A Charlie Brown Christmas, Fantasy - INTERVIEW: Chuck Siler, educator, visual artist, and curator at the Louisiana State Museum
Listen - Back Door Santa Clarence Carter
The Original Soul Christmas, Rhino - Santa Claus is Coming to Town/White Christmas Jimmy McGriff
Ultra Lounge Christmas Cocktails, Capitol - Three Angels Bob Dylan
New Morning, Columbia - O Little Town of Bethlehem Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Have Yourself a Jazzy Little Christmas, - O Day Bessie Jones / Georgia Sea Island Singers
Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder - Auld Lang Syne Dejan's Olympia Brass Band
New Orleans Brass Bands: Down Yonder, Rounder - SEGMENT: Karen Glennemeier and Bruce Deihl
HOUR two
- Open Bed: A Party For Santa Claus Lord Nelson
Xmas Marks The Spot, Ryko - Santa Claus is Coming to Town Joseph Spence
Xmas Marks the Spot, Rounder - Santa Claus Is Skaing To Town Granville Williams Orchestra
Natty And Nice, A Reggae Christmas, Rhino - Santa Came Home Drunk Clyde Lasley & The Cadillac Baby Specials
Bummed Out Christmas, Rhino - Faraway Christmas Blues Johnny Otis
The Johnny Otis R & B Caravan/ Complete Savoy Recordings, Savoy - Santa Lightnin' Hopkins
Jingle Bells, House of Blues Christmas Collection, HOB - The Little Drummer Boy Lou Rawls
Billboard Greatest R&B Christmas Hits, Rhino - Good Morning Blues Ella Fitzgerald
Jingle Bell Jam: Jazz Christmas Classics, Rhino - Instrumental: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus / Jingle Bells Bossa Nova Eddie Dunstedter
Ultra-Lounge Christmas Cocktails, Capitol - Blue Christmas Elvis Presley
Elvis Christmas Classics, RCA - White Christmas Otis Redding
The Original Soul Christmas, Rhino - Merry Christmas Baby Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry: The Chess Box, Chess/MCA - Christmas Party (intro to #21)
Christmas Party with Eddie G., Sony - Christmas Blues Canned Heat
Blue Yule: Christmas Blues and R&B Classics, Rhino - Instrumental: Little Cajun Drummer Boy Kristin Hersh
Xmas Marks The Spot, Ryko - Take the Star out of the Window John Prine
Diamonds in the Rough, Atlantic - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Fantasy John Fahey
The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Solo Christmas Album, Takoma - My Favorite Things John Coltrane
My Favorite Things, Atlantic
