Ice and Snow Blues

“Ice and Snow Blues,” Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch), vocal and piano. Don’t know who’s on guitar.

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Lonesome Christmas

“Lonesome Christmas,” written by Lloyd Glenn, performed by Little Milton (James Milton Campbell, Jr).

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Christmas Morning Blues

“Christmas Morning Blues,” composed and performed by John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson (1914 –  1948), harmonica and vocal. The artist is often referred to as “Sonny Boy Williamson 1” to avoid confusion with another performer who later adopted the name. This is a remastered recording of the 1938 Bluebird 78 rpm record.

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Christmas In Jail, Ain’t That a Pain

Leroy Carr (piano and vocal) and Francis “Scrapper” Blackwell (guitar), “Christmas In Jail, Ain’t That a Pain,” Vocalion 1432 (1929).

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“Before there was hip-hop, there was LeRoy Carr,” Mike Greenblatt, Goldmine

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Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’

Albert King performs a Mack Rice composition, “Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin.’”

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Christmas Tears

“Christmas Tears,” credited to Z. Bridge, S. Thompson, and R.C. Wilson, recorded by Freddie King in 1961.

Eric Clapton performed a powerful version at a Washington DC benefit for the Special Olympics in 1998:

Texas Flood Blues

Texas is prone to gully-washers and toad-stranglers, thunderstorms that turn washes and arroyos into rivers, and rivers into inland seas. Every couple of decades there’s a big one.

Larry Davis co-wrote and recorded the song “Texas Flood” in 1958, with Fenton Robinson on guitar. Texans Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan jammed on the tune in the CHCH-TV studio in Hamilton, Ontario on December 6, 1983 for the television series In Session.

Mr. Vaughn’s 1983 studio recording of this Blues is the most well-known, but Fenton Robinson’s 1974 version has a lot to offer.

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B.B. King

B.B. King, interviewed by Joe Smith on on September 5, 1986, animated by Patrick Smith of Blend Films for Blank on Blank (PBS Digital):

Christmas Morning Blues

“Christmas Morning Blues,” composed and performed by John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson (1914 –  1948), harmonica and vocal. The artist is often referred to as “Sonny Boy Williamson 1” to avoid confusion with another performer who later adopted the name. This is a remastered recording of the 1938 Bluebird 78 rpm record.

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Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’

Albert King performs a Mack Rice composition, “Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin.'”

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