{"id":2060,"date":"2011-12-21T14:45:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T19:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2015-12-22T23:21:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T07:21:17","slug":"a-merry-blues-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/a-merry-blues-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A Merry Blues Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2062\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2062\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/a-merry-blues-christmas\/399px-y_christmas_tree_2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2062\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2062\" src=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/399px-Y_Christmas_Tree_2-e1324496650803-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celebrate Christmas with the early Delta and Texas Blues men. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Musicians are known for releasing Christmas recordings this time of year, so I put a few videos together for you this Christmas season.\u00a0 But I thought I would find recordings that were done earlier than Clapton, Vaughan, and Setzer.\u00a0 I collected a series of videos from the early Texas and Delta Blues legends.\u00a0 Take a look and listen to some great early blues recordings of Christmas songs past.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>The first video comes from Charley Jordan and is called, &#8220;Christmas Christmas Blues.&#8221;\u00a0 Check it out&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ot77hgxxZWQ?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The next video comes from an early Texas blues favorite, Blind Lemon Jefferson.\u00a0 This tune is called, &#8220;Christmas Eve Blues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AztDQp1i3yQ?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The last of the early blues recordings in this post is from Blind Blake in 1929.\u00a0 His recording is called, &#8220;Lonesom Christmas Blues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZFNCQpKsC8s?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Now for this next\u00a0video, I jumped forward a few years to 1961.\u00a0 Freddie King recorded a song called, &#8220;Christmas Tears.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9i2wypLkWkY?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>And finally, a little modern Christmas blues from Joe Bonamassa<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cJGz_J-4pL0?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musicians are known for releasing Christmas recordings this time of year, so I put a few videos together for you this Christmas season.\u00a0 But I thought I would find recordings that were done earlier than Clapton, Vaughan, and Setzer.\u00a0 I collected a series of videos from the early Texas and Delta Blues legends.\u00a0 Take a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6799,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions\/6799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}