Charles Brown – Charles Brown Sings Christmas Songs
Bells will be ringing at the start of Charles Brown’s soulful Sings Christmas Songs album. What follows is an unhurried collection of non-standard R&B Christmas tunes.
Chet Atkins – Christmas with Chet Atkins
As long as there have been Christmas records, there have been solo instrumental Christmas records.
June Christy – This Time Of Year
Christmas, even to those who despise it, is a singularly meaningful holiday.
Mahalia Jackson – Silent Night: Songs for Christmas
Sometimes, it’s not about the notes someone sings, about their purity and quality and intrinsic meaningfulness. Sometimes, it’s about the pauses.
The Ramsey Lewis Trio – Sound of Christmas
How do you actually create something that sounds like Christmas music? It’s probably a question that has vexed all those Christmas record hopefuls that have tried to create b
The Kingston Trio – Last Month of the Year
The Kingston Trio is, quite straightforwardly, the most important band in the history of music that people don’t normally know about.
A Music Box Christmas: Enchanting 19th-Century Music Boxes from the Collection of Rita Ford
The fantastic thing about recording technology is that it allows us to travel in time.
Louvin Brothers – Christmas With The Louvin Brothers
The album Christmas With The Louvin Brothers surely must have sounded incredibly old-fashioned in 1961.
Stan Kenton – A Merry Christmas!
Stan Kenton was not just one of the biggest big band leaders in jazz history. In a particular way, he was pretty much the biggest – that is, in terms of band size.