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Where Will You Be Christmas Day | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Dust to Digital
Category: Music
List Price: $17.99
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 37621
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 880226000028
EAN: 0880226000028
ASIN: B00064AFFU
Release Date: October 12, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Last Month of the Year - Vera Hall-Ward | | • | Christ Was Born on Christmas Morn - Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers | | • | Christmas Is A-Coming - Lead Belly | | • | Christmas Is a Joyful Day - Lord Executor | | • | Dance Under the Willows (Tanec Pid Werbamy) - Pawlo Humeniuk | | • | Decimas de Nacimiento - Los Jibaros | | • | Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle (Pastorale Di Natale) - Pasquale Feis | | • | Lady Gay - Buell Kazee | | • | Sherburne - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers | | • | Holy Babe - Kelly Pace, Aaron Brown, Joe Green, Paul Hayes, and Matthew Johnson | | • | He Was Born in a Manger - Rev. J.M. Gates | | • | Wrong Way to Celebrate Christmas - Rev. Edward W. Clayborn | | • | Santa Claus - Walter Davis | | • | Gee, Ain't I Good to You? - McKinney's Cotton Pickers | | • | At the Chrsitmas Ball - Bessie Smith | | • | Papa Ain't No Santa Claus (And Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree) - Butterbeans & Susie | | • | Christmas Morning Blues - Kansas City Kitty | | • | Christmas in Jail-Ain't That a Pain - Leroy Carr | | • | Christmas Morning the Rum Had Me Yawning - Lord Beginner | | • | Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over - Fiddlin' John Carson & His Virginia Reelers | | • | Breaking Up Christmas - Norman Edmonds | | • | Happy New Year Blues - Mary Harris | | • | Happy New Year - Lightnin' Hopkins | | • | Jingle Bells - The Maddox Brothers & Rose (Bonus Track) |
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Album Description
Dust-to-Digital is proud to announce our new Holiday Series, curated by musicologist Dick Spottswood. Based on his popular radio show in Washington, D.C., our series is initiated with a Christmas Gift, a compact disc full of rare yuletide gems. Just as Goodbye, Babylon showed the many sides of gospel music, Where Will You Be Christmas Day? shows many sides of Christmas - from Jesus born in the manger to Leroy Carr spending the holiday in jail. Some of the artists featured include Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, Butterbeans and Susie, Fiddlin' John Carson, Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers, Lightnin' Hopkins, Los Jibaros, Kansas City Kitty, Lead Belly, Lord Executor, Maddox Brothers and Rose, and Bessie Smith. Together they provide a compelling contrast to the commercialized Christmas we know today...
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| Customer Reviews:
And I want y'all to remember that Christmas is Jesus' birthday. December 25, 2006
Johnny Heering (Bethel, CT United States)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
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 December 20, 2006
Mr. William G. Schletzer (Minneapolis, MN)
9 out of 9 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. November 28, 2006
harry715 (VA United States)
4 out of 18 found this review helpful
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! December 25, 2005
Bryan Barrow (Santa Cruz, CA USA)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
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! December 1, 2005
M. Allen (iowa city, USA)
50 out of 53 found this review helpful
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!
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