CHRISTMAS

Bluegrass Christmas Albums:

• Banjomania “Christmas Remembered” (BM)
• Norman & Nancy Blake “An Americana Christmas” (Winter Harvest)
• The Cluster Pluckers “A Cluster Pluckers Christmas Album” (CP)
• Dan Crary “Holiday Guitar” (Sugar Hill)
• Bob Dick “Tidings of Comfort and Joy: A Christmas Collection” (Appleland)
• Raymond Fairchild "Smokey Mountain Christmas" (Rural Rhythm)
• 5 for the Gospel “Christmas Time in Eastern Kentucky” (Hay Holler)
• Emmylou Harris “Light of the Stable” (Warner Bros./Reissued on Rhino)
• The Isaacs “Christmas Spirit” (Horizon)
• Rick Lang and Friends “The Season of My Heart” (Haley Anna Music)
• Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver “Merry Christmas from Our House to Your House” (SSK)
• The Lewis Family “20 Bluegrass Christmas Favorites” (Benson)
• Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum “Winter”s Grace” (Signature Sounds)
• Loose Ties “Yule Ties” (Snake River Records)
• Rick Lang and Friends “The Season of My Heart” (Haley Anna Music)
• Patty Loveless “Bluegrass & White Snow” (Epic)
• Jimmy Martin “To Mother, At Christmas” (Gusto)
• Don Reno and Red Smiley “The True Meaning of Christmas” (King)
• Jesse McReynolds “A Mandolin Christmas” (Double J)
• Larry Sparks “Christmas in the Hills” (Rebel)
• Ralph Stanley “Christmas Time with Ralph Stanley” (Freeland)
• Tony Trischka “Glory Shone Around: A Christmas Collection” (Rounder)
• Rhonda Vincent “Beautiful Star: A Christmas Collection” (Rounder)
• Ricky Skaggs & Family “A Skaggs Family Christmas” (Skaggs Family)
• Various Artists “A Pinecastle Christmas Gatherin” (Pinecastle)
• Various Artists “A Very Special Acoustic Christmas” (Lost Highway)
• Various Artists “Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas” (Pinecastle)
• Various Artists “Christmas at Doobie Shea” (Doobie Shea)
• Various Artists "Chrismas in Carolina" (Blue Circle)
• Various Artists “Christmas Grass” (Audium)
• Various Artists “Christmas Grass Volume 2" (Audium)
• Various Artists “Christmas Grass Volume 3" (Koch)
• Various Artists “Christmas Jamboree” (Highland Music)
• Various Artists “Christmas On the Mountain” (Universal South)
• Various Artists “Christmas Time Back Home” (Rebel)
• Various Artists “O Christmas Tree: A Bluegrass Collection for the Holidays” (Rounder)
• Various Artists “Pickin’ on Christmas” (CMH)
• Various Artists “Sugar Plums” (Sugar Hill)
• Various Artists “Tinsel Tunes” (Sugar Hill)
• Robin and Linda Williams “The First Christmas Gift” (Red House)

And don’t forget these songs from other albums:

• Angels on High
  • Clint Miller and the McCoury Band “Wings of a White Dove” (No Label)
• Babe of Bethlehem
  • The McLain Family Band “Sunday Singin'” (CLR)
• Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
  • James Alan Shelton “Road to Coeburn” (Copper Creek)
  • Ralph Stanley & Connie Smith “Clinch Mountain Country” (Rebel)
• Call Collect on Christmas
  • Del McCoury “35 Years of the Best in Bluegrass, Disc Two” (Rebel)
• Christ Was Born in Bethlehem
  • Billy Joe Foster and Special Edition “Before the Prairie Met the Plow” (Hay Holler)
• Christmas Country Style
  • Larry Stephenson “Close My Eyes to Heaven” (Webco)
• The Christmas Guest
• Grandpa Jones "Poems and Songs" (Country Always)
• Christmas Mandolin
• Johnny Staats on Various Artists, “Believe: A Christmas Collection” (Giant) also on Prime Cuts, Vol. 48.
• Christmas on the Farm
  • The McLain Family Band “McLain Family Band” (CLR)
• Christmas Time in My Home Town
  • Wil Maring “An Ocean From Home” (Bear Family/Prime Cuts Vol. 36)
• Christmas Time is Coming
  • The Flat Ridge Boys “Christmas with the Flat Ridge Boys” (Heritage/Prime Cuts Vol. 12)
• Christmas Time's a Comin'
  • The Bluegrass Band “Once Again, From the Top” (Hay Holler)
  • Bill Monroe “Bluegrass Memories” (MCA)
• Christmas Time in Texas
• The Overall Boys ("The Overall Boys"; also on Prime Cuts, Volume 84)
• Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over
  • Fiddlin” John Carson on “Back Roads to Cold Mountain” (Smithsonian Folkways)
• Cradle to Cross to Crown
  • New Tradition “Cradle, Cross, Crown” (Mountain Home)
• Daddy's Old Guitar (Randy Christmas gift one year was his father's guitar.)
• Randy Waller "Randy Waller" (Lendel)
• Fall Down Children
  • The Whites “Doing It By the Book” (Canaan)
• Father I Know Why
  • Blue Highway “Blue Highway” (Ceili)
• Follow the Light
  • The McLain Family Band “Kentucky Wind” & “Sunday Singin'” (CLR)
• Follow the Star
• Larry Sparks "The Last Suit You Wear" (McCoury Music)
• Food on the Table
  • The Dillards “Take Me Along for the Ride” (Vanguard)
• From the Manger to the Cross
  • The Stanley Brothers “The Early Years 1958-1961” (King)
• Heartbeat
  • The Rarely Herd “What About Him” (Pinecastle)
• Hills of Old Judea
  • Wade Spencer “Grass Covered Tracks” (Model Music, Also Prime Cuts, Vol. 59)
• I Wasn’t There
  • Paul Williams “Ain’t God Good” (Rounder)
• It's Christmas Time
  • The Boys from Indiana (single/Rebel)
• It's Time to Hear Those Jingle Bells Again
• The Larry Wallace Band (on Prime Cuts, Volume 84)
• Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
  • Bluegrass Etc. “Travelin’ Band” (Sierra)
• Let’s Live Every Day Like It Was Christmas
  • Randall Franks & Friends “Christmas Time’s a Comin’” (Sonlite)
• Let's Make a Baby King
  • New Grass Revival “Friday Night in America” (Capitol)
• Light of the Stable
  • The McLain Family Band “Big Hill” (CLR)
• Little Baby Child
• Jim Hurst "Box of Chocolates" (no label)
• Little Stranger
  • The Rochesters “Heaven’s Gift” (Mountain Home/Prime Cuts Vol. 30)
• Mary, Merry Christmas
  • Ralph Stanley II “Listen to My Hammer Ring” (Rebel)
• Mary's Song
  • Cornerstone “Out of the Valley” (Folk Era/Prime Cuts Vol. 12)
• My Greatest Christmas
  • Bill Grant “My Pathway Leads to Oklahoma” (KMB)
• New Star Shining
  • Ricky Skaggs (with James Taylor) “Love's Gonna Get Ya” (Epic)
• Oh Christmas Candle
  • Stony Point Quartet “Christmas Time Back Home” (Cracker Barrel) Also Prime Cuts, #66
• Old Fashioned Christmas
  • Jimmy Martin, Various Artists “Christmas Jamboree” (Highland Music)
• On Christmas Eve
  • John Hartford “Headin' Down into the Mystery Below” (Flying Fish)
• On Christmas Eve (different from the Hartford tune above)
  • Wolfe Brothers “2001 An Old Time Odyssey” (Copper Creek)
• One Christmas
  • Steve Kaufman “Circles” (Sleeping Bear)
• Our Christmas Tree
  • Bill Price “Honoring the Father of Bluegrass” (Lanor Records)
• Santa, Baby
  • Patty Mitchell (Promotional Parody, No Label)
• Santa Claus
  • Bill Monroe “Bluegrass Instrumentals” (Decca/Bear Family)
• Santa Got Picked Up for D.U.I / Christmas Time
  • The Boys from Indiana (45 rpm single--Old Heritage Records)
• Season of Joy (instrumental)
  • Scott Vestal, et al “Bluegrass 2000” (Pinecastle)
• Set Apart
  • The Bullas “Set Apart” (Dominion Records)
• She Cries
  • The Isaacs “Increase My Faith” (Horizon)
• That's Christmas Time to Me
• Bill Monroe "Bluegrass Memories" (MCA) Also on Bear Family Boxed Set 1970-79, Vol. 4
• The Christmas Train is Coming
• Tommy Edwards "The Christmas Album" (Salisbury Street) Also on Prime Cuts Volume 90.
• When the Time Had Fully Come
  • Northern Lights "Can't Buy Your Way" (Flying Fish)

For Wayne's short list of songs to play on Christmas, click here.