Christmastime at RCU (Xmas Mix ’18)

In my continuing effort to dig up the most unique and listenable Christmas songs by artists that you’d expect to find across the RCU blog and social media accounts, I present the following mix….Expect obscure funk/soul artists like Binky Griptight and Milly & Silly alongside people like Jerry Garcia and Sean Smith in full folk roots-mode, while jazz giants like Pharaoh Sanders and John Coltrane rub shoulders with classic rockers like T. Rex and Canned Heat, and many others. Hopefully this’ll help you and yours get into a festive mood.

1. Milly & Silly – Getting Down for Christmas
2. T. Rex – Christmas Bop
3. Khruangbin – Christmas Time is Here
4. Charles Bradley – Every Day Is Christmas When I’m Lovin You
5. The Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band – Christmas Time’s a-Comin’
6. Binky Griptite – Stone Soul Christmas
7. Captain Beefheart – There Ain’t No Santa Claus On The Evenin Stage
8. John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy – Greensleeves
9. Canned Heat – Christmas Blues
10. Nina Simone – Children Go Where I Send You
11. Symondsbury Mummers – Entrance of Father Christmas 
12. Donovan – On Christmas Day
13. Grateful Dead – Run Run Rudolph (12/7/71)
14. Charles Brown, Johnny Otis, Shuggie Otis – Merry Christmas Baby
15. Sean Smith – It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
16. The Black on White Affair – Auld Lang Syne 
17. T. Rex. – Xmas Jingle
18. Shirley Collins & Davy Graham – The Cherry Tree Carol
19. Jerry Garcia & David Grisman – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
20. Pharaoh Sanders – The Christmas Song
21. Kenny Burrell – Silent Night
22. Symondsbury Mummers – Conclusion of Symondsbury Mummer’s Play

Happy holidays, from all of us here at Record Crates United.