Across the Blue Ridge #157 - Holiday Songs & Stories

This year's holiday special includes gospel, old-time, bluegrass, country, jazz and blues songs of the season.  Plus … a look back at Breaking Up Christmas parties in the Blue Ridge Mountains of generations past, with exclusive field interviews.  This show will bring out memories, help you learn, and bring people of all generations and locales together around the holidays and wonderful American music traditions.

Playlist

1. Christmas In The Mountains
   Larry Sparks & The Lonesome Ramblers
   Christmas In The Hills
   Rebel
    
2. Christmas Waltz & Fum Fum Fum
   Dan Crary
   Holiday Guitar
   Sugar Hill
    
3. Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem
   Emmylou Harris
   Light Of The Stable
   Rhino
    
4. Christmas Time's a-Coming
   Peter Rowan
   Christmas Bluegrass
   Welk
    
5. O Holy Night
   Nat King Cole
   The Christmas Song
   Capitol
    
6. Hallelujah, It Is Done
   Elizabeth Cotten
   Shake Sugaree
   Smithsonian Folkways
    
7. Christmas Holiday
   Paul Brown
   ATBR recording
    
8. Break 1 - Jingle Bells
   Balsam Range
   It's Christmas Time
   Mountain Home
    
9. Breaking Up Christmas
   Tommy Jarrell
   June Apple
   Mountain
    
10. Interview - Paul Sutphin & Eleanor Coalson
    Paul Sutphin & Eleanor Coalson
    ATBR recording
     
11. Interview - Paul Sutphin & Eleanor Coalson
    Paul Sutphin & Eleanor Coalson
    ATBR recording
     
12. Interview - Ray Alden
    Ray Alden
    ATBR recording
     
13. Cluck Old Hen
    Tommy Jarrell, Kyle Creed, Paul Sutphin, Mac Snow
    field recording
     
14. Interview - Ray Alden
    Ray Alden
    ATBR recording
     
15. Little Maggie
    Fred Cockerham, Lawrence Lowe, Earnest East, Mac Snow, Paul Sutphin
    field recording
     
16. Interview - Johnny Vipperman
    Johnny Vipperman
    ATBR recording
     
17. Breaking Up Christmas
    Camp Creek Boys
    Old Time String Band
    County
     
18. First Snow
    Tim O'Brien
    Bluegrass X-Mas
    Welk
     
19. Break 2 - Snow Shoes
    Kenny Smith
    Bluegrass X-Mas
    Welk
     
20. Blue Christmas
    Elvis Presley
    Elvis' Christmas Album
    RCA Victor
     
21. Swing Down That Chariot
    Cooke Duet
    Best Of Cooke Duet
    Freeland
     
22. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
    Joseph Spence
    Living On The Hallelujah Side
    Rounder
     
23. That's Christmas Time To Me
    Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys
    Christmas Time With Ralph Stanley
    Freeland
     
24. God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign
    Toast String Stretchers
    Wanted!
    Toast String Stretchers
     
25. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
    Sweetback Sisters
    The Sweetback Sisters' Country Christmas
    The Sweetback Sisters