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URL icon « on: December 01, 2009, 03:59:16 PM »
Here's a handful of CD's I'd recommend getting if you like Christmas bluegrass style:

1. Christmas on the Mountain - A Bluegrass Christmas (Universal South)
2. Tinsel Tunes (Sugar Hill)
3. Sugar Plums (Sugar Hill)
4. O Christmas Tree (Rounder)
6. Emmylou Harris - Light of the Stable (Warner Bros.)

And a couple new ones:

7. Jerry Douglas - Jerry Christmas (Koch Records)
8. John Cowan - Comfort and Joy (Koch Records)
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URL icon « Reply #1 on: December 02, 2009, 01:33:56 AM »
Don't forget the Flecktones recording released only last year....

Jingle All the Way!

It's beautiful, and at times just like the holiday's on crack!  LOL

O.K. Tom, it's not Bluegrass, but there is a Banjo!

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URL icon « Reply #2 on: December 02, 2009, 08:55:30 AM »
A coupla other great ones:
1. Rhonda Vincent - Beautiful Star (Rounder-2006)
2. Patty Loveless - Bluegrass and White Snow (Sony-2002)

And don't forget Pandora radio, where you can make your own bluegrass Christmas station for free!  Thumbs Up

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URL icon « Reply #3 on: December 03, 2009, 01:01:29 PM »
eggnog, magaritas, and a carton of marlboro lights
now thats my kinda christmas  Wink

http://www.ilike.com/artist/Robert+Earl+Keen/track/Merry+Christmas+From+The+Family

this ones for you lalagay

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URL icon « Reply #4 on: December 03, 2009, 01:11:57 PM »
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Quote from: dayton on December 03, 2009, 01:01:29 PM
eggnog, magaritas, and a carton of marlboro lights
now thats my kinda christmas  Wink

http://www.ilike.com/artist/Robert+Earl+Keen/track/Merry+Christmas+From+The+Family

this ones for you lalagay

Definitely a classic!!! 

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URL icon « Reply #6 on: December 04, 2009, 09:12:29 AM »
Thanks Dayton! my past Christmases seem so pallid and uneventful in comparison...  LOL

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URL icon « Reply #7 on: December 05, 2009, 03:31:56 PM »
Hi Miki!  Wave

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URL icon « Reply #8 on: December 07, 2009, 06:48:08 PM »
A Christmas Heritage
Bomhard Theatre
Louisville, KY
December 10, 1998

Tim O'Brien - vocals mandolin, bouzouki fiddle
Darol Anger - fiddle
Alison Brown - banjo
Todd Phillips - upright bass
Mike Marshall - guitar mandolin
Phil Aaberg - piano accordion


Source: DSBD DAT recorded by Dirk Cota and Phil Harris from S. Hawkins
Transfer: Panasonic SV-3700 > Audiophile 2496 > @ 24 Bit to Wavelab 5.0,
recorded as 24 bit/44.1 KHz PCM WAV > Waves L3 Multimaxmizer
(threshold –2.5, ceiling –0.1, type I dither, ultra shaping) >
16 bit/44.1 KHz PCM WAV > CDWAV 1.9 > FLAC (level 8).
Transfers and seeded to bt.etree.org by Bill Koucky December 6, 2006

Disc 1 52:11
1st Set:
1. Introduction
2. Christmas Eve
3. Greensleeves
4. Tim says hello
5. Rise Up Shepherd and Follow
6. Phil talks about the album
7. A Gypsy Winter
8. Little Drummer Boy
9. Tim talks about Newgrange
10. Newgrange
11. Darol speaks about…
12. Sholom Aleichem > Breakin' Up Christmas
13. Band Introductions
14. In The Bleak Midwinter

Disc 2 62:18
2nd Set:
1. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
2. Darol speaks about…
3. Roving on a Winters Night
4. On a Quiet Night
5. Phil Aaberg talks about…
6. Westbound
7. Patapan > Land's End
8. Don't Be Surprised
9. Alison talks about…
10. Leaving Cottondale
11. Tim sends his thanks
12. Go Tell It on the Mountain
13. Applause
Encore:
14. Near Northern
15. Blue Night
16. band intros, goodnight…

Notes: This is an excellent recording of the holiday assemble playing songs
from the group’s Newgrange cd. The tracking was done in such a way that individual
songs could be edited out from the between song banter and applause.
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URL icon « Reply #9 on: December 08, 2009, 08:41:32 AM »
Don't forget Tony Trischka's Glory Shone Around
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URL icon « Reply #10 on: December 16, 2009, 06:45:47 PM »
wow -- that tim o'brien and new grange set is unbelievable! i can't stop listening to it! thanks for posting the link and info -- one of the best winter / holiday albums or sets i've ever heard, for sure. that band kills!
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URL icon « Reply #11 on: December 21, 2009, 02:35:49 PM »
Chris Thile- Bring A Tourch Jeanette Isabella. He plays it So beautifully .

 Makes me want to weep.
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URL icon « Reply #12 on: December 22, 2009, 07:14:56 AM »
Playing Silent Night (grassed up, but of coarse) with the Mandolin I built this summer while at RGA in my PJ's in the driveway at 5:30 this AM.
 All my trees lit up in the forrest. It was fun till my neighbor busted me. I made em smile anyway! Flower
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URL icon « Reply #13 on: December 27, 2009, 07:33:42 PM »
Quote from: landshark on December 22, 2009, 07:14:56 AM
Playing Silent Night (grassed up, but of coarse) with the Mandolin I built this summer while at RGA in my PJ's in the driveway at 5:30 this AM.
 All my trees lit up in the forrest. It was fun till my neighbor busted me. I made em smile anyway! Flower


Now THAT'S funny Miki! LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL  So much for silence at 5:30 a.m. Neither silent nor night. That one made me laugh a LOT! 
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URL icon « Reply #14 on: December 28, 2009, 07:10:25 AM »
Quote from: Cindy Lou on December 27, 2009, 07:33:42 PM
Quote from: landshark on December 22, 2009, 07:14:56 AM
Playing Silent Night (grassed up, but of coarse) with the Mandolin I built this summer while at RGA in my PJ's in the driveway at 5:30 this AM.
 All my trees lit up in the forrest. It was fun till my neighbor busted me. I made em smile anyway! Flower


Now THAT'S funny Miki! LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL  So much for silence at 5:30 a.m. Neither silent nor night. That one made me laugh a LOT! 

It was pretty funny. Gotta go with that insperation when it hits you and it feels so good to sing in the morning..
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