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::Making Grown Men Cry Since 1992
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Every year, the onslaught of saccharine Christmas muzak seems to arrive earlier. I’m no grinch. Several festive comps and albums soundtrack my casa come mid-December: Blues, Blues Christmas; Happy Birthday, Baby Jesus; A John Waters Christmas; Where Will You Be Christmas Day?; ZE Records’ A Christmas Record (and 2004’s reload); and John Fahey’s Christmas Guitar. As a seasonal antidote to Yule schlock, I prescribe a not-so-merry compilation. Old-school blues comprise the bulk of this playlist, but I also added a pinch of fire-and-brimstone, calypso and spoken word. Detox from sonic fruitcake overdose at bit.ly/nihilnoel or below. 1) Lil McClintock – “Don’t Think I’m Santa Claus”2) Tampa Red – “Christmas and New Year’s Blues”3) Bumble Bee Slim – “Christmas and No Santa Claus”4) Harmon Ray – “Xmas Blues”5) Victoria Spivey – “Christmas Morning Blues”6) Bessie Smith – “At the Christmas Ball”7) Lord Executor – “Seven Skeletons Found in the Yard”8) William S. Burroughs – “The Junky’s Christmas”9) Rev. J.M. Gates – “Death Might Be Your Santa Claus”