Hark the Herald Banjos Twang

The Edge Of AmericanaHark the Herald Banjos Twang

Well, of course we are doing Xmas songs.  Right?

But also some rip roaring banjo numbers to keep it peppy!

Enjoy!

JB & OK

Artist / Song / Album / Label
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver / The First Noel/It Came Upon A Midnight Clear/Joy To The World / Christmas Time’s A-Comin’ – The Essential Bluegrass Christmas Collection / Time-Life
Rev. J.M. Gates / Did You Spend Christmas Day In Jail? / Blues, Blues Christmas (1925-1955) / Document
Foghorn Stringband / Kicking Up the Devil on a Holiday / Weiser Sunrise / Nettwerk
Don Reno & Red Smiley / Blue Christmas / The True Meaning Of Christmas / King

EC Ball / Santa Claus is Coming to Town / EC Ball Project -Tape 33 / Self
Nowell Sing We Clear / While Shepherds Watched / The Best of Nowell Sing We Clear, 1975-1986 / Golden Hind Music
Washington Phillips / Denomination Blues, Part 1 / Take Me To The Water / Dust to Digital
Melvin Wine / Christmas Morning / Collected Fiddle Tunes / Digital Library of Appalachia
Middle Georgia Four / Twenty-Fifth Day of December / Field Recordings (Volume 14): TX, AL, TN, GA & KY (1934 – c.1950) / Document
George Jones / New Baby For Christmas / Country & Western No 1 Male Singer / Mercury

Reece Shipley / Santa Miss Those Missiles / Tennessee Swing / Patuxent
Bill Keith / Beating Around The Bush / Beating Around The Bush / Green Linnet
Béla Fleck and The Flecktones / The Christmas Song / Jingle All the Way / Rounder
Lead Belly / The Christmas Song / Blues, Blues Christmas (1925-1955) / Document
Lord Beginner / Christmas Morning The Rum Had Me Yawning / Where Will You Be Christmas Day / Dust to Digital

Corley Family / Give the World a Smile / 1926-37 Joe Bussard – Down in the Basement / Old Hat
Bill Monroe / That’s Christmas Time To Me / Bluegrass, 1970 – 1979 [Disc 4] / Bear Family
Jason Skinner / Double Banjo Blues / Full Recordings / Self
New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters / Old Gospel Ship / The Galax Way / Hay Holler
Tampa Red / Christmas & New Year’s Blues / Blues, Blues Christmas (1925-1955) / Document

Woody Guthrie / Jesus Christ / My Dusty Road / Smithsonian Folkways
Nowell Sing We Clear / A Child This Day Is Born / The Best of Nowell Sing We Clear, 1975-1986 / Golden Hind
The Mayfield Brothers / Holiday For Love / Vintage Recordings, 1948 – 1956 / Patuxent
Flatt & Scruggs / Foggy Mountain Chimes / 1959-66 Newport Folk Festival: The Best Of Bluegrass / Vanguard
The Stanley Brothers / Holiday Pickin’ / The Early King & Starday Years, 1958 – 1961 / King
Don Reno & Red Smiley / It Came Upon A Midnight Clear / The True Meaning Of Christmas / King
Georgia Sea Island Singers / O Day / Songs of Christmas / Rounder

Isham Monday / Christmas Eve / Tompkinsville, Monroe Co, KY (1879-1964) / Morehead State
Trevor & Travis Stuart / Christmas Eve / Pretty Little Widow / Self
Joseph Spence / Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town / Living on the Hallelujah Side / Rounder
Roosevelt Sykes / Let Me Hang Your Stockings In Your Christmas Tree / Blues, Blues Christmas (1925-1955) / Document
Ray Vass & Mabel Dalton / Christmas Times A Coming / Galax Gems: Music of Galax, Virginia In The 1960s / Field Recorders Collective
Nowell Sing We Clear / The Holly and the Ivy / The Best of Nowell Sing We Clear, 1975-1986 / Golden Hind
Murph Gribble / Christmas Eve / Deep River of Song: Black Appalachia / Rounder

Asa Martin, Doc Roberts, James Roberts / Give My Love To Nellie, Jack / 7-Mar-31 / Digital Library of Appalachia
Boyd Asher / Old Christmas / Kentucky Mountain Music / Yazoo
Larry McNeely / Slipped Disc / Rhapsody For Banjo / Flying Fish
The McCoury Brothers / Bluegrass Christmas / Christmas Time’s A-Comin’ – The Essential Bluegrass Christmas Collection / Time-Life
Rev. J.M. Gates / Death Might Be Your Santa Claus / Blues, Blues Christmas (1925-1955) / Document

EC Ball / Hark the Herald Angels / EC Ball Project -Tape 33 / Self