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AFTER THE STORM VI: CHRISTMAS IN NEW ORLEANS
Sleigh Bells will be ringing in New Orleans, and there will be plenty of great seasonal music as well. Plus, jazz writer and musicologist John Szwed talks about the Jelly Roll Morton Library of Congress recordings.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Silent Night, Holy Night Allen Toussaint
A New Orleans Christmas, NYNO - No Room at the Inn Vera Hall
Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder - Last Month of the Year The Blind Boys of Alabama
Go Tell It on the Mountain, Real World - Santa's Second Line New Birth Brass Band
New Orleans Christmas, NYNO - O Day Georgia South Sea Island Singers
Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder - Tryin' to Get Home Blind Gary Davis
Harlem Street Singer, Prestige/Bluesville - Instrumental: It Came Upon A Midnight Clear Michael Doucet
Christmas Bayou, Swallow - J'ai vu le Loup, le Renard et la Belette The Balfa Brothers
Louisiana Spice: 25 Years of Louisiana Music on Rounder Records, Rounder - Winterlude Joe Ely
To: KATE, A Benefit for Kate's Sake, Western Beat - I Don't Just Want You for Christmas Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas
Must Be Santa, Rounder - Christmas is a Joyful Day Lord Executor
Where Will You Be Christmas Day, Dust-to-Digital - Christmas Feeling Ska Toots and the Maytals
Christmas Greetings from Studio One, Heartbeat - Instrumental: Silver Bells Papa Don Vappie's New Orleans Jazz Band
A Christmas Present, Vappielle - INTERVIEW: John Szwed on Jelly Roll Morton
Listen - There's No Place Like Home For the Holidays Leon Redbone
Christmas Island, Blue Thumb - I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Billie Holiday
Have Yourself a Jazzy Little Christmas, Verve - Merry Christmas Baby Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
Billboard Greatest R&B Christmas Hits, Rhino - End Bed: Winter Wonderland Allen Toussaint
A New Orleans Christmas, NYNO
HOUR two
- Open Bed: The First Noel John Fahey
The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album, Takoma - Christmas is A-Coming Leadbelly
What are You Doing Christmas Day, Dust-to-Digital - Christ Was Born on Christmas Morn Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers
What are You Doing Christmas Day, Dust-to-Digital - Sherburne (While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks) Sacred Harp Singers
Songs of Christmas from the Alan Lomax Collection, Rounder - Cherry Tree Carol Pentangle
Solomon's Seal, Reprise - Greensleeves John Coltrane
The Best of: His Greatest Years, Vol. 2, Impulse - Instrumental: Greensleeves Jimmy Smith
Christmas Cookin’, Verve - The Wind Cries Mary Jimi Hendrix Experience
Are You Experienced, MCA - Who Took the Merry Out of Christmas? The Staple Singers
MOJO Blue Christmas, MOJO - Three Angels Bob Dylan
New Morning, Columbia - O Little Town of Bethlehem Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Have Yourself a Jazzy Little Christmas, Verve - I'll Be Home for Christmas The Pilgrim Travelers
Blue Yule: Christmas Blues and R&B Classics, Rhino - I'll Be Home for Christmas Diana Krall
Christmas Songs, Verve - Let's Make Christmas Merry, Baby Amos Milburn
Billboard Greatest R&B Christmas Hits, Rhino - Instrumental: We Free Kings Roland Kirk
Have Yourself a Jazzy Little Christmas, Verve - We Three Kings of Orient Are John Fahey
The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album, Takoma - It Came Upon a Midnight Clear The Louvin Brothers
Hillbilly Holiday, Rhino - River Joni Mitchell
Blue, Reprise - Pretty Paper Willie Nelson
Pretty Paper, Columbia - White Christmas Otis Redding
The Original Soul Christmas, Rhino - End Beds: Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy) Duke Ellington
Three Suites, Columbia
