do you guys know any rock and roll and/or blues christmas songs? Here are a few ideas, you can find MP3 samples of all of these at Amazon or Barnes and Nobles:
Merry Christmas Baby, B.B. King version
Christmas Blues, Canned Heat version
The Christmas Song, Leadbelly version
Santa's Messin With The Kid, Eddie Campbell version
Rock and Roll Christmas, George Thorogood version I thought your question was great. I had fun thinking about which songs I liked. I'll be buying the MP3s and playing them for my husband...;) Will you be performing the songs? Report It
jingle bell rock? Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree! grandma got run over by a reindeer is a good rock one
also the santa claus boogie is another one by a group called
the tractors Elvis had a whole Christmas album. But of course, a lot of folks know his "Blue Christmas"
Also there's "Little St. Nick"
Chuck Berry's "Run Run Rudolph"
I always dug that tune by the Waitresses "Merry Christmas" (or whatever that song is called)
There is the Louis Armstrong tune that goes "Is that you, Santa Claus?" redone by Buster Poindexter. Gary "Ho Ho" Hoey has a few really good Christmas cd's with all rock/blues Christmas songs. Here is a link to a great CD. It has various rock guitar players doing some great Christmas songs. This is just one, there are two that I know of. I have them both.
http://www.amazon.com/Merry-Axemas-Vario... I wrote a song that I call : BELLS RINGING OF CHRISTMAS CHEER
You can take any Christmas song and BLUES IT UP or ROCK IT .
I am performing a major Christmas Party so I will be BLUESING these Christmas songs up
One of my favorite Christmas songs is Only fools fall in Love BY Evils
It may not be considered a Christmas song by most But to me it is (you need to read behind the lines in order to see it as a Christmas song) ELVIS "BLUE CHRISTMAS" Greatest Christmas song ever done.
#2 EARTHA KITT "SANTA BABY"
#3 KEITH RICHARDS version of "RUN RUN RUDOLPH" All I Want For Christmas Is You...Vince Vance & The Valiants (bluesy rock)
Please Come Home For Christmas...Eagles (bluesy/rock)
Blue Christmas...Elvis (blues)
Rockin Around The Christmas Tree...Brenda Lee (rock)
Little Saint Nick...Beach Boys (rock)
I'll Be Home For Christmas...Elvis (blues)
Merry Christmas Baby...Charles Brown (blues)
Blues For Christmas...John Lee Hooker (blues) Mistress for Christmas - AC/DC
Jingle Hells Bells - AC/DC
Blue Christmas - Joe Perry
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Rock and Roll Christmas - George Thorogood
Deck The Halls - Ted Nugent
Silent Night Holy Night - Joe Satriani
Christmas Time is Here - Steve Vai
Joy to The World - Steve Morse
Christmas is the Time to say I Love You - Billy Squire
Those are just some that many people don't know about but they are fantastic! Only Charles Brown's "Please Come Home For Christmas" is what I listen to.
The rest is garbage to me. | 