There will never be another voice like Sharon Jones’s. On Owens’ holiday records you’ll find whimsical favorites like the all-time great “Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy (or Daddy Looked a Lot Like Him),” tear-jerkers like “Blue Christmas Tree” and “All I Want for Christmas is My Daddy,” traditional favorites like “Jingle Bells,” and a re-working of the Owens hit “Cryin’ Time,” which puts on a red suit and white beard to appear here as “It’s Christmas Time for Everyone But Me.” These albums are essential listening for the holidays. Even if you haven’t listened to all of them (and I doubt there are very many people who have), it’s difficult to imagine that any of them capture the feeling of “the most wonderful time of the year” better than the two holiday records released by Buck Owens and his Buckaroos (both of which were re-released as a double-LP collection in 1970, and re-titled to tie in with the then-new syndicated series Hee-Haw, on which Owens was a featured player). There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of country music holiday records, and more get added to the list every year.
Buck OwensĬhristmas With Buck Owens And His Buckaroos & Christmas Shopping Рабор even manages to wrap Mortiis’s “Battles on Ice” in a holiday ribbon on an album-ending cover version. Cheerful melodies combine with the occasional well-used sleigh bell to provide a “holiday” feeling without being overly “Christmas-y.” Both artists provide peaceful, calming music that fits right into any holiday playlist. While that image may not speak to your specific holiday experience (hello, tropical and subtropical climate zones), the mood here will be familiar. Winternight Fairytales is a collection of light, crystalline compositions that use folk elements and instrumentation to evoke the calm of moonlight on a snow-covered field. Here, RævJäger and Рабор (or “Rabor” if you want to get non-Cyrillic about it), two “dungeon synth” artists, present a holiday-themed work that is worlds away from goblin-infested caverns or the crumbling stone walls of an ancient fortress. It’s a catch-all that encompasses a wide variety of fantasy-inspired electronic music, but it often falls short of being an apt descriptor for some of the artists it claims. “ Dungeon synth” as a descriptor is a double-edged sword. Pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to track
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