Bluegrass Christmas

General Discussion
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Here’s a handful of CD’s I’d recommend getting if you like Christmas bluegrass style:

  1. Christmas on the Mountain - A Bluegrass Christmas (Universal South)
  2. Tinsel Tunes (Sugar Hill)
  3. Sugar Plums (Sugar Hill)
  4. O Christmas Tree (Rounder)
  5. Emmylou Harris - Light of the Stable (Warner Bros.)

And a couple new ones:

  1. Jerry Douglas - Jerry Christmas (Koch Records)
  2. John Cowan - Comfort and Joy (Koch Records)

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Don’t forget the Flecktones recording released only last year…

Jingle All the Way!

It’s beautiful, and at times just like the holiday’s on crack! :lol

O.K. Tom, it’s not Bluegrass, but there is a Banjo!

Auntie Hope :festivarian2 :green

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A coupla other great ones:

  1. Rhonda Vincent - Beautiful Star (Rounder-2006)
  2. Patty Loveless - Bluegrass and White Snow (Sony-2002)

And don’t forget Pandora radio, where you can make your own bluegrass Christmas station for free! :thumbsup

Ann

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eggnog, magaritas, and a carton of marlboro lights
now thats my kinda christmas :wink:

http://www.ilike.com/artist/Robert+Earl+Keen/track/Merry+Christmas+From+The+Family

this ones for you lalagay

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OMG
One of All Time FavS!!!
Thanks Dayton !
:cheers :cheers :cheers

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Definitely a classic!!!

Hi Lalagay!

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Thanks Dayton! my past Christmases seem so pallid and uneventful in comparison… :lol

Hi Hooch!

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Hi Miki! :wave

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A Christmas Heritage
Bomhard Theatre
Louisville, KY
December 10, 1998

Tim O’Brien - vocals mandolin, bouzouki fiddle
Darol Anger - fiddle
Alison Brown - banjo
Todd Phillips - upright bass
Mike Marshall - guitar mandolin
Phil Aaberg - piano accordion

Source: DSBD DAT recorded by Dirk Cota and Phil Harris from S. Hawkins
Transfer: Panasonic SV-3700 > Audiophile 2496 > @ 24 Bit to Wavelab 5.0,
recorded as 24 bit/44.1 KHz PCM WAV > Waves L3 Multimaxmizer
(threshold –2.5, ceiling –0.1, type I dither, ultra shaping) >
16 bit/44.1 KHz PCM WAV > CDWAV 1.9 > FLAC (level 8).
Transfers and seeded to bt.etree.org by Bill Koucky December 6, 2006

Disc 1 52:11
1st Set:

  1. Introduction
  2. Christmas Eve
  3. Greensleeves
  4. Tim says hello
  5. Rise Up Shepherd and Follow
  6. Phil talks about the album
  7. A Gypsy Winter
  8. Little Drummer Boy
  9. Tim talks about Newgrange
  10. Newgrange
  11. Darol speaks about…
  12. Sholom Aleichem > Breakin’ Up Christmas
  13. Band Introductions
  14. In The Bleak Midwinter

Disc 2 62:18
2nd Set:

  1. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
  2. Darol speaks about…
  3. Roving on a Winters Night
  4. On a Quiet Night
  5. Phil Aaberg talks about…
  6. Westbound
  7. Patapan > Land’s End
  8. Don’t Be Surprised
  9. Alison talks about…
  10. Leaving Cottondale
  11. Tim sends his thanks
  12. Go Tell It on the Mountain
  13. Applause
    Encore:
  14. Near Northern
  15. Blue Night
  16. band intros, goodnight…

Notes: This is an excellent recording of the holiday assemble playing songs
from the group’s Newgrange cd. The tracking was done in such a way that individual
songs could be edited out from the between song banter and applause.

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Don’t forget Tony Trischka’s Glory Shone Around

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wow – that tim o’brien and new grange set is unbelievable! i can’t stop listening to it! thanks for posting the link and info – one of the best winter / holiday albums or sets i’ve ever heard, for sure. that band kills!

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Chris Thile- Bring A Tourch Jeanette Isabella. He plays it So beautifully .

Makes me want to weep.

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Playing Silent Night (grassed up, but of coarse) with the Mandolin I built this summer while at RGA in my PJ’s in the driveway at 5:30 this AM.
All my trees lit up in the forrest. It was fun till my neighbor busted me. I made em smile anyway! :flower

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Now THAT’S funny Miki! :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol So much for silence at 5:30 a.m. Neither silent nor night. That one made me laugh a LOT!

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It was pretty funny. Gotta go with that insperation when it hits you and it feels so good to sing in the morning…
:flower

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I just wanted to give this topic a bump since it’s that time of year – last year I was introduced to the Tim O’Brien / New Grange Christmas show through this thread (HIGHLY recommended), as well as a number of other things.

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I think I should mention one of my favorites: David Grisman’s “Acoustic Christmas”.

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home for the holidays, ahhh…
eggnog, magaritas, and a carton of marlboro lights
now thats my kinda christmas

http://www.ilike.com/artist/Robert+Earl+Keen/track/Merry+Christmas+From+The+Family

this ones for you lalagay :flower

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Thanks for all the suggestions!

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Tim O has a recent set of bluegrass holiday tunes under the moniker Yulegrass.

12/16: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=560785 (feat. Sarah Jarosz)

12/15: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=560780

Check it out! Also, do yourself a favor and track down that Heritage Band set mentioned earlier in this thread. It’s a stunner.