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Thread #75833   Message #1336757
Posted By: GUEST,Hootenanny
23-Nov-04 - 03:35 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Old Timey Christmas Songs
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Old Timey Christmas Songs
Try listening to the County CD-2722 Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday, several versions of "Breaking Up Christmas". This is from a radio broadcast documentary of the tradition of breaking up Christmas square dances in North Carolina, narrated by Paul Brown and includes Tommy Jarrel's son calling. Great CD and lots of good music.

There is also a nice fiddle tune called "Old Christmas" which Tom Paley plays but I don't know where he got it. Old Christmas being January 6th, you could maybe stretch a point and play "The 8th January".

Merry Christmas