Maillist
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- Where Will You Be Christmas Day?
- Format: CD Album
- Catalogue Number: DTD002
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Dust to Digital
- Release Date: 6 December 2004
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PRICE: £13.99
Where Will You Be Christmas Day?
Holiday booklet, greeting card or gift package and following up last year's critically acclaimed Goodbye, Babylon box set, Dust-to-Digital is proud to announce our new Holiday Series, curated by musicologist Dick Spottswood. Based on his popular radio show in Washington, D.C., our series is initiated with a Christmas Gift, a compact disc full of rare yuletide gems.
Just as Goodbye, Babylon showed the many sides of gospel music, this CD shows many sides of Christmas - from Jesus born in the manger to Leroy Carr spending the holiday in jail. Some of the artists featured include Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, Butterbeans and Susie, Fiddlin' John Carson, Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers, Lightning Hopkins, Los Jibaros, Kansas City Kitty, Lead Belly, Lord Executor, Maddox Brothers and Rose, and Bessie Smith. Together they provide a stark contrast to the commercialized Christmas we know today...
"These songs and performances reflect sentiments of earlier times, when the holiday involved more than indoor trees and endless trips to the mall." - Dick Spottswood from the liner notes.
Track Listing
1. Last Month of the Year - Vera Hall-Ward,
2. Christ Was Born on Christmas Morn - Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers
3. Christmas Is A-Coming - Leadbelly
4. Christmas Is a Joyful Day - The Lord Executor
5. Dance Under the Willows (Tanec Pid Werbamy) - Pawlo Humeniuk
6. Décimas de Nacimiento
7. Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle (Pastorale di Natale)
8. Lady Gay - Buell Kazee
9. Sherburne - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
10. Holy Babe - Aaron Brown, Joe Green, Paul Hayes, Kelly Pace
11. He Was Born in a Manger - Reverend J.M. Gates
12. Wrong Way to Celebrate Christmas - Reverend Edward W. Clayborn
13. Santa Claus - Walter Davis
14. Gee, Ain't I Good to You? - McKinney's Cotton Pickers
15. At the Christmas Ball - Bessie Smith
16. Papa Ain't No Santa Claus (And Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree) - Butterbeans & Susie
17. Christmas Morning Blues - Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom
18. Christmas in Jail -- Ain't That a Pain - Leroy Carr
19. Christmas Morning the Rum Had Me Yawning - Lord Beginner
20. Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over - Fiddlin' John Carson & His Virginia Reelers
21. Breaking Up Christmas - Norman Edmonds
22. Happy New Year Blues - Mary Harris
23. Happy New Year - Lightnin' Hopkins
24. Jingle Bells - The Maddox Brothers & Rose
