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November 14, 2007 | Filed Under Music |

All right! The (recently) annual family Christmas CD has been decided. Last year, my brothers and sister exchanged CDs of our 15 favorite songs. This year it is our favorite cover songs. Not necessarily fifteen, but a full CD worth (I would say no less than 50 minutes). I have checked with the judges and they have agreed that covers of traditional songs counts. Therefore, one could do a whole CD of… Christmas songs! Not that I would, but it is possible.

And there may be a few covers in this lot:
Dropkick Murphys - “The Gangs All Here”
Memphis Minnie - “Hoodoo Lady: 1933-1937″ The greatest hits of one of the best female blues artists ever.
Billie Holiday - “All Of Me” Another best of.
R. L. Burnside - “Come On In”
Ray Charles - “The Genius Hits The Road” From 1960.
Neneh Cherry - “Homebrew” Love her! Also check out her album “Man”.
Beats International - “Let Them Eat Bingo” Fatboy Slim right before he changed his name.

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6 comments so far
  1. Mike November 15, 2007 9:20 am

    15 different versions of “Silent Night”?? They could use that at Gitmo instead of water-boarding!

  2. Tommy November 15, 2007 9:30 am

    Im going to record all my own versions of Christmas songs on my 4 track. Im going to call it “Tom Nolan’s Lo-fi Christmas Hootenany!”

  3. mburma November 15, 2007 10:22 am

    Careful - I can throw in techno Christmas tunes. AND numerous versions of “Silver Bells”, starting with Dean Martin.

  4. terry November 16, 2007 6:12 am

    Hey no themes!! Christmas, that’s too cheesey.

  5. Tommy November 16, 2007 6:40 am

    Uncle Mike, did you ever end up getting Powder Burns or the Grinderman album?

  6. Mike November 19, 2007 11:06 am

    Tommy…I got Powder Burns, a very good CD. I saw Afghan Whigs at Toads after the release of the third album, “1965″ I think. They were great live.