Yesterday, I was hankerin’ for a hunk o’ Blues holiday music.  I hopped onto iTunes and found — “Blues, Blues Christmas” — a collect of 52 songs recorded between 1925-1955.

Here’s the PR blurp about the album:

For the first time, Blues, Blues Christmas presents a compelling and comprehensive collection of Afro-American jazz, blues, boogie-woogie and gospel recordings dedicated to the holidays. With lively boogie-woogie and R&B, reflective blues and the odd cautionary sermon for good measure, this double CD set has to be one of the most listenable and fascinating holiday compilations ever produced.

The collection is stunning.  It’s a real thrill to feel these holiday Blues.  At $20.00USD for 52 songs, that averages out to 0.38 cents per song:  What a steal!

Here is the incredible list of songs in the collection:

As ever, here’s the iTunes Ping! proof-of-purchase, so you can see I put my money where my music is:

“Blues, Blues Christmas” is a wonderful collection of early Blues music — and I’m going to listen to it all year round — not just during the holidays.

5 Comments

  1. ANNE – I live and teach on the upper West Coast of the United States. My interests are Philosophy, English, and Social Communication.
    anne says:

    Don’t know many of the artists listed, David, but that’s a good thing right. That means I can learn about a lot more singers all at once.

    1. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
      David W. Boles says:

      The album is definitely a primer for me, too, Anne. So many good voices!

    1. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
      David W. Boles says:

      I’m learning Christmas is a very sexy time in the Old Blues World, Gordon! SMILE!

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