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- Lightnin’ Hopkins: Merry Christmas
- Jimmy Witherspoon: How I Hate to See Xmas Come Around
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe: O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Little Johnny Taylor: Please Come Home For Christmas
- Chuck Berry: Spending Christmas
- Charles Brown: Merry Christmas
- Albert King: Christmas
- Eric Clapton: Christmas Tears
- John Lee Hooker: Blues For Christmas
- Bb King: Christmas Love
There is something incongruous about hearing a voice you normally associate with singing pained lyrics about heartbreak belting out lines about Santa Claus coming around, but Lightnin’ Hopkins’ tune about his woman returning is actually full of Christmas cheer. “Merry Christmas” was first released as a single in the first week of advent in December...
Jimmy Witherspoon, the great “blues shouter” who sang with jazz greats such as Coleman Hawkinsand Roy Eldridge, performs typically miserable blues lyrics in a song that is tied to the festive period. There’s no money to purchase the Christmas tree, he sang, sadly, in this 1948 classic. The singer was given fine musical support from Louis Speigner o...
In September 1956, gospelgreat Sister Rosetta Tharpe cut a moving version of the 19th-century Christmas carol “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” Who better than Tharpe, who was raised by her mother, a traveling evangelist with the Church Of God In Christ, to sing such a seminal religious Christmas song?
This Stax Records gem from 1961 features the Arkansas-born blues singer Little Johnny singing “Please Come Home for Christmas,” a song that has been covered by everyone from Bon Jovi to Eagles. Taylor, who began his career as a gospel singer, died in 2002.
Chuck Berry’s most sentimental song, “Spending Christmas,” was recorded for Chess Recordsin Chicago in December 1964, and produced by label owners Phil and Leonard Chess. The song is nostalgic, with Berry singing about being far away from home, far away from loved ones, and dreaming of wrapping Christmas presents. Berry, backed by old friends from ...
“Merry Christmas” is probably the only song that has been covered by both Bruce Springsteenand Mae West, but the definitive version was released in 1947 by singer and pianist Charles Brown as part of Johnny Moore’s vocal group Three Blazers. Brown, whose delicate slow-paced style influenced blues performances for two decades, said he helped Lou Bax...
Albert Kingtook the song “Christmas (Comes But Once A Year),” which had been a hit for Amos Milburn in 1960, and gave it a makeover, playing some sizzling blues guitar. King, who was known as “The Velvet Bulldozer” because of his smooth singing and size (he was 6’ 6”), adds some funk and blues for Christmas time. (For something that’s got a little ...
“Christmas Tears” was blues legend Freddie King’s Christmas anthem, written and recorded in 1961. Grammy-winning Eric Claptonreleased his own Christmas album in 2018, after figuring out, as he put it, “how to play the blues lines in between the vocals of holiday songs.” His solo on “Christmas Tears” is eye-wateringly good. Clapton’s album, which al...
John Lee Hooker has one of the most mournful voices in popular music and the singer-guitarist composed the bleak song “Blues for Christmas,” which included the lines “blues for Christmas/blue as I can be/I’m sitting here drinkin’/trying to drink my baby back.” The song was recorded in Detroit in 1949, in the era when Hooker was recording for the fa...
BB King’s chart-topping 2001 album, A Christmas Celebration Of Hope, contained festive classics such as “Please Come Home For Christmas,” but one of the real highlights of the album is his own composition, “Christmas Love.” The instrumental track showed that, even at the age of 76, he had lost none of the skill that had made him one of the world’s ...
Dec 21, 2023 · 24: Office Christmas Party (2016) When you’re throwing the world’s wildest office party, you’d better have a solid playlist. Plenty of danceable tracks up the ante in this ensemble comedy ...
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- The Blues Brothers (1980) Directed by John Landis. Starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway. Action, Adventure, Comedy (2h 13m) 7.9 on IMDb — 72% on RT.
- Jammin' the Blues (1944) Directed by Gjon Mili. Starring Lester Young, George "Red" Callender, Harry Edison. Documentary, Music, Short (10m) 7.9 on IMDb — N/A on RT.
- Leadbelly (1976) Directed by Gordon Parks. Starring Roger E. Mosley, Paul Benjamin, Madge Sinclair. Biography, Drama, Music (2h 6m) 7.2 on IMDb — N/A on RT.
- Cadillac Records (2008) Directed by Darnell Martin. Starring Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyoncé. Biography, Drama, Music (1h 49m) 7.0 on IMDb — 66% on RT.
Oct 20, 2021 · Christmas Time - Lil Ed & the Blues Imperials 28. Back Door Santa - B.B. King 29. Blues For Christmas - John Lee Hooker 30. Santa Don't Let Me Down - Earl King 31. Christmas Tears - Freddie King 32. Santa's Got The Blues - Chris Whynaught 33. Christmas Morning Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson I 34. Santa Claus Wants Some Loving - Albert King 35.
Feb 20, 2024 · 1 The Snowman. basj1976 on YouTube. That flipping boy tenor singing that song. Ugh, chills. It is serious Christmas vibes, not to mention the animation that that evokes dreamy, sleepy, snowy feels ...
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Feb 19, 2019 · 1. John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton - Bluesbreakers (Decca 1966) John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton - Bluesbreakers (Decca 1966) There isn’t a British blues rock guitarist around whose ears weren’t pinned to the wall the first time they heard Bluesbreakers.
