Where Will You Be Christmas Day

by Dust to Digital

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Release Date:	2004-10-12
Label:	Dust to Digital
UPC:	880226000028
Binding:	Audio CD
Published By:	Dust to Digital
ASIN:	B00064AFFU
Category:	Music

Tracks on Where Will You Be Christmas Day by Dust to Digital

1. Last Month of the Year - Vera Hall-Ward
2. Christ Was Born on Christmas Morn - Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers
3. Christmas Is A-Coming - Lead Belly
4. Christmas Is a Joyful Day - Lord Executor
5. Dance Under the Willows (Tanec Pid Werbamy) - Pawlo Humeniuk
6. Décimas de Nacimiento - Los Jibaros
7. Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle (Pastorale Di Natale) - Pasquale Feis
8. Lady Gay - Buell Kazee
9. Sherburne - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
10. Holy Babe - Kelly Pace, Aaron Brown, Joe Green, Paul Hayes, and Matthew Johnson
11. He Was Born in a Manger - Rev. J.M. Gates
12. Wrong Way to Celebrate Christmas - Rev. Edward W. Clayborn
13. Santa Claus - Walter Davis
14. Gee, Ain't I Good to You? - McKinney's Cotton Pickers
15. At the Chrsitmas Ball - Bessie Smith
16. Papa Ain't No Santa Claus (And Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree) - Butterbeans & Susie
17. Christmas Morning Blues - Kansas City Kitty  
18. Christmas in Jail-Ain't That a Pain - Leroy Carr
19. Christmas Morning the Rum Had Me Yawning - Lord Beginner
20. Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over - Fiddlin' John Carson & His Virginia Reelers
21. Breaking Up Christmas - Norman Edmonds 
22. Happy New Year Blues - Mary Harris
23. Happy New Year - Lightnin' Hopkins
24. Jingle Bells - The Maddox Brothers & Rose (Bonus Track)

Editorial Reviews and Product Descriptions

Customer Reviews

And I want y'all to remember that Christmas is Jesus' birthday. - Reviewed on 2006-12-25

4 customers found this review helpful, 2 did not.

This is collection of Christmas songs recorded from old 78s. Some of the songs are a bit scratchy, but they are all quite listenable. The recordings date from 1917 to 1959, with the majority being recorded in either the '20s or the '30s. The music is played is a wide variety of styles; including gospel, folk, calypso, blues, county and others. Most of the songs are quite enjoyable. This is a very different Christmas album than any other you've ever heard, which is a good thing.

Great great music - Reviewed on 2006-12-20

9 customers found this review helpful.

I love this cd. The songs are uniquely christmasy. I don't necessarily play it Christmas morning when I'm sticking with the traditional stuff, but I play it more than any other Christmas cd I have. In contrast to the guy that doesn't think these are recorded well, I think these have excellent sound quality for this type of old music. The variety is awesome from the bagpipe guy to a Leadbelly quicky, Buell Kazee doing his usual thing to blues, solo vocals and more. I get these songs, like "The Wrong Way to Celebrate Christmas" in my head and I can't get them out. I wish I could find another Christmas cd like this one. Now that would be the right way to

I was hoping for something more listenable. - Reviewed on 2006-11-28

4 customers found this review helpful, 14 did not.

If poorly recorded roots music is of interest to you, you might want to consider buying this CD. The poor recording is, of course, not the fault of the company making the CD. The recordings are made from old originals that were made with primitive equipment in primitive conditions. There is no arguing that the music is historically significant. But, I was hoping that there might be one or two songs I could consider listenable. Each year I search for obscure music to add to a large collection of holiday CD's. This one, unfortunately, will not be one that I count among the worthwhile purchases. Pairing this with the John Waters CD is, I suppose, logical. I would recommend that one first, however, on the basis of sound quality if nothing else.

Unique- cannot be categorized! - Reviewed on 2005-12-25

9 customers found this review helpful, 2 did not.

This CD has a wide range of musical styles, collected from rare recordings from the 20's to the 50's; most of the recording seem to come from a gospel/blues tradition, but each is unique in it's own way...
Some of these songs are quite enjoyable, but others take some getting used to; this is not a CD I would play on Christmas with the family gathered round, but I have been listening to it in my car during the holiday season...I collect Xmas CD's, and this unusual compilation is a welcome addition to my collection.

an amazing CD that i listen to all year long! - Reviewed on 2005-12-01

50 customers found this review helpful, 3 did not.

this is quite possibly the best CD i have ever heard in my life. i absolutely treasure the music and am so thankful that the guys at dust-to-digital thought to put this compilation together. it is not "christian" necessarily, even though it is a christmas album (when you hear "christmas in jail" and "papa ain't no santa claus" you'll see what i mean) so don't think that it is only for those whose taste runs to the religious. the music represents the soul, the backbone, and the seed of just about all american music (except perhaps techno...). a must own for any lover of folk, country, rock, blues, soul, gospel, and even funk music. this is the best of the best--you will not be disappointed!

Book Subjects

• Christmas
• Christmas / Chanukkah
• Classic Female Blues
• Classic Jazz
• Holiday
• Holiday Music
• Pop
• Pop/Rock Music
• V/a Compilations
• Xmas Vocal Collections