Instrumental Christmas: The Sanders household just wasn’t in the mood for the all-out onslaught of the familiar Christmas music in the early days of this December, so we put together a set of wordless wonders, and we sought out as many unfamiliar tunes as possible. It’s a nice change of pace (though if you want to see our other playlists, including the more traditional ones, you can find 9 of them here). The rough draft was overpowered by too much banjo and bluegrass, so we cut as much of it as we could stand to, and tried to showcase less conventional instruments: ukulele, accordion, steel drum, B3 organ, surf guitar, toolboxes, and the whole catastrophe from the rowdy lands of klezmer, polka, and zydeco.
Below is the track list with links to Amazon mp3s; most of it is also available as a Spotify playlist here.
01 Silver and Gold; Chance Turcotte, Christmas 2012
02 O Christmas Ukulele; Cary Kanno, Uke-Banjo Christmas
03 Jolly Saint Nick: Larry Chesky Orchestra, Polka Christmas
04 The First Noel; Jo-El Sonnier, Cajun Christmas
05 Christmas Carol Rock; Art Greenshaw, Surf n Swing Christmas
06 Christmas Dance; Clarke Family w/Billy Oskay, Christmas Pickins
07 Over the Rainbow / Merry Christmas; Ukulele Christmas
08 O Holy Night; Art Greenshaw, Surf n Swing Christmas
09 Hark/O Come All Ye Faithful; John Fahey, The New Possibility
10 Silver Bells; Booker T & the MGs, In the Christmas Spirit
11 Dance of Sugar Plum Fairy/ Woody Phillips, A Toolbox Christmas
12 Bells of St Mary’s; Smokey Montgomery, Surf n Swing Christmas
13 Deck the Halls; Toolbox Christmas
14 O Come all Ye Faithful; Pine Street String Band, Banjo Christmas
15 Carol of the Bells; Christmas Grass
16 Little Town of Bethlehem; Doug Munro and La Pompe Attack, Gypsy Jazz Christmas
17 Deck the Halls; Nokie Edwards, Surf ‘N’ Swing Christmas
18 Let it Snow; Gary Ferguson, Surf n Swing Christmas
19 Irish Christmas Guitar Jig; Dan Kirby
20 We Three Kings; Doug Munro and La Pompe Attack; Very Gypsy Christmas
21 We Three Kings; Klezmonauts, Oy to the World
22 Angels from the Realms of Glory; Mambo Folk, Mambo Christmas Fiesta
23 Holly and the Ivy; Doug Walker, Ultimate Reggae Caribbean Christmas
24 Joy to the World; Smokey Mtn Band, Christmas Pickin
25 Now to Conclude our Christmas Mirth; Ethan James, Ancient Music of Christmas
26 New Year’s Rendezvous; Art Greenshaw, Surf n Swing Christmas
27 Auld Lang Banjo; Cary Kanno, Uke-Banjo Christmas
