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From blues to gospel, from field recordings to street sermons, here are 52 vintage snapshots of an African-American Christmas. These range from deeply sorrowful to lighthearted to just plain bizarre Christmas Blues Gatemouth Moore; Hello Santa Claus Cecil Gant; Happy New Year Darling Lonnie Johnson; Christmas & New Year's Blues Tampa Red; at the Christmas Ball Bessie Smith; the Christmas Song Leadbelly; Happy New Year Lightnin' Hopkins, plus Amos Milburn, Little Esther, Leroy Carr and more! Album Tracks 1. Christ Was Born on Christmas Morn - Frankie InchHalf-PintInch Jaxon 2. Christmas Morning Blues - Titus Turner 3. Hep Cat's Holiday - the Cats & the Fiddle 4. Christmas Blues - Ralph Willis 5. Junior's a Jap Girl's Christmas for His Santa Claus - Willie Blackwell 6. Papa Ain't No Santa Claus (And Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree) - Butterbeans & Susie 7. Trim Your Tree - Jimmy Butler 8. Christmas Blues - Gatemouth Moore 9. Bring That Cadillac Back - Doc Bagby, Harry InchFatsInch Crafton 10. Christmas Man Blues - Bertha InchChippieInch Hill 11. Hello Santa Claus - Cecil Gant 12. Christmas and No Santa Claus - Bumble Bee Slim 13. Love for Christmas - Felix Gross 14. Happy New Year Darling - Lonnie Johnson 15. Christmas & New Year's Blues - Tampa Red 16. Let's Make Christmas Merry, Baby - Amos Milburn 17. Christmas Spirit - Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends 18. At the Christmas Ball - Bessie Smith 19. How Will You Spend Christmas - Rev. A.W. Nix 20. Xmas Blues - Harmon Ray 21. How I Hate to See Xmas Come Around - Jimmy Witherspoon 22. Christmas Date Boogie - Pete Johnson, Joe Turner 23. Christmas Boogie - Frankie InchSugar ChileInch Robinson 24. Christmas Song - Leadbelly 25. Happy New Year - Lightnin' Hopkins 26. Wrong Way to Celebrate Xmas - Reverend Edward w. Clayborn 1. Santa Claus - Bo Carter 2. Chr
