Volume 3 of the acclaimed Blue, Blues Christmas series from Document Records is our most wide-ranging collection yet, jumping genres from blues, gospel, jazz, rock, doo-wop and country spanning the 1920's through the 1960's, many songs which have not been anthologized before. Most of the pre-war Christmas blues recordings have been collected on our first two anthologies but there are a few leftover gems by Bumble Bee Slim, Victoria Spivey, Lil McClintock and Walter Davis. From the post- war era some fine Christmas blues from Leadbelly, Amos Milburn, B.B. King, Jimmy McCracklin, John Lee Hooker and Thelma Cooper. We hear from a fine contingent from the Lone Star State including Lightnin' Hopkins, Hop Wilson and Freddy King. We turn our attention to the religious side with selections by Rev. JM Gates, Rev. D.C. Rice, Magnolia Five, The Fairfield Four and the Spartanburg Famous Four. Jumping across the tracks we spotlight some fine country and rockabilly performers including Joe Poovey, Cordell Jackson, Fiddling' John Carson, Coy McDaniel & Shorty Warren, the Davis Sisters and Vernon Dalhart. If you're talking about country, real country music, the first of what we know today as "country music" was broadcast by radio and recorded for phonograph by Fiddlin' John Carson. We bring you a batch of Christmas vocal group numbers I know all too well by the Penguins, The Ravens, The Five Keys, The Larks, Billy Ward and His Dominoes, The Youngsters and The Jackson Trio. In the late 1940's, early 1950's the clear delineation between blues, R&B and vocal group music got a little fuzzy with groups becoming harder to classify, eventually morphing into rock and roll. From that era, we feature holiday platters by Dee Dee Ford and Oscar McLolli. We jump to the jazz side of the street with selections by Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Jordan, the Wardell Gray/Dexter Gordon Quintet and a pair by Duke Ellington

Tracklist:

Christmas Is Coming
Gettin' Ready for Christmas Day
I Ain't Gonna Let You See My Santa Claus
Blues for Christmas
Good Morning Blues
Jingle Jangle
The Holy Baby
Go Tell It to the Mountain
Rock and Roll Christmas
Christmas Choo Choo Train
The Christmas Boogie
I Need a Man
Christmas Time Part 1
Santa Claus Bring Me a New Woman
Baby It's Cold Outside
Christmas Comes Once a Year
Christmas Tears
Santa's Helper
Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over
Jingle Jangle Jump
Santa
Christmas Time - Part 2
Merry Christmas Darling
Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy)
White Christmas
What Do You Call That Wonderful Counsellor
Go Where I Send Thee
Silent Night
Christmas in Jail
Jingle Bell Hop
Be-Boppers Christmas
Santa Claus That's Me
Don't Think I'm Santa Claus
New Santa Clause
Christmas Celebration
Christmas to New Year's
It's Christmas Time
Far Away Christmas Blues
Ringing in a Brand New Year
The Secret of Christmas

UPC: 714298321821
Label: Document
Release Date: 11.12.13
Format: CD

Blues Blues Christmas - Vol. 3-Blues Blues Christmas (CD)