Kentucky Christmas

Subject: Kentucky Christmas
From: Peter T.
Date: 06 Jan 12 - 10:15 AM

I spent a whole lot of time during the holidays looking for a nice Applachiany Christmas album that I could have in the background as I racked up VISA bills. I tried a variety (Mark O'Connor and others) but none were really authentic, not acoustic wallpaper, and worth it I wandered around on Mudcat (THE SOURCE OF TRUTH), and then it hit me by osmosis. Fool that I was, I had forgotten about "Kentucky Christmas" -- Jean Ritchie and friends and family.   Ordered it, and been listening to it with delight, though Christmas is over.   You could stash this recommendation for next Christmas, or don't wait.....

Subject: RE: Kentucky Christmas
From: 2581
Date: 06 Jan 12 - 11:51 AM

Don't forget to listen to Phil Ochs' single "No Christmas in Kentucky"...! It has been covered on YouTube by Raymond Crooke. See links below.

No Christmas in Kentucky - Phil Ochs

Raymond Crooke's cover version

Subject: RE: Kentucky Christmas
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jan 12 - 03:22 PM

I had a similar reaction to O'Connor's Appalachian Christmas -- beautiful music, but Appalachian?
Some of my favorite Christmas Music from the Mountains: Down Came An Angel, the Cherry Tree Carol, I Wonder As I Wander, the fiddle tunes Breaking Up Christmas and Old Christmas.
As you've discovered tho, you just can't beat Jean's Christmas album.
FYI: Ochs' "No Christmas..." is drawn from a coal strike in Perry County, Ky., in 1963 or so, same event that inspired Paxton's High Sheriff of Hazard and Malvina Reynolds' "Clara Sullivan's Letter."