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December 24, 2003
A Country Christmas CD Mix Here's the programming for a groovy CD of country Christmas music. It adds up to just over 78 minutes for 28 songs of country holiday goodness.
If We Make It Through December - Merle Haggard
Christmas Time's a Comin - Bill Monroe
Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley
Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy - Buck Owens
Christmas Eve Can Kill You - The Everly Brothers
Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas - Commander Cody
White Christmas - Ernest Tubb
Reindeer Boogie - Hank Snow
Pretty Paper - Willie Nelson
My Favorite Things - Kenny Rogers
I'm Gonna Tell Santa On You - Faron Young
My Mom and Santa Claus - George Jones
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - John Mellencamp
Go Tell It On the Mountain - Dolly Parton
Santa Claus Is Watching You - Ray Stevens
Leroy the Redneck Reindeer - Joe Diffie
To Heck With Old Santa Claus - Loretta Lynn
I'll Be Walkin' the Floor This Christmas - Ernest Tubb
Christmas Carols by the Old Corral - Tex Ritter
'Po Folks Christmas - Bill Anderson
Let's Put Christ Back in Christmas - Tammy Wynette
Hark the Herald Angels Sing - Johnny Cash
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - The Louvin Brothers
O Little Town of Bethlehem - Dolly Parton
The Little Drummer Boy - Johnny Cash
Away in a Manger - Dwight Yoakam
O Come All Ye Faithful - Johnny Cash
Nothing But a Child - Steve Earle
My most surprising new find amongst these holiday favorites was the Kenny Rogers version of "My Favorite Things" - though I suppose you could question how well that qualifies as "country music." Who woulda thunk I'd go for a Kenny Rogers record of ANY kind- much less a Christmas record. It's pretty good.
"If We Make It Through December" may be the best song of Merle Haggard's career, certainly one of his top 10. You could also look at it as the greatest ever sad Christmas song.
I had some of these in stock, lots of good Christmas stuff can be found at the library, and of course, you can DOWNLOAD MOST OF THEM conveniently enough.
