{"id":6458,"date":"2014-12-25T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6458"},"modified":"2014-12-25T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T07:54:00","slug":"some-blues-christmas-songs-you-might-not-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/some-blues-christmas-songs-you-might-not-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Blues Christmas Songs You Might Not Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since it&#8217;s Christmas and you might be feeling a little full of egg nog&#8230; how about some nice Christmas blues songs \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>First, Clarence Carter with a little &#8220;Back Door Santa&#8230;&#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\/EtTfosvGdTY?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>But I couldn&#8217;t help but make a listening lesson here and show you another way you could play the same tune. Check out BB King&#8217;s version of it in more of a slower shuffle feel:<\/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\/IMfhaGNoSfw?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Now how about Little Milton&#8217;s &#8220;Lonesome Christmas.&#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\/B6GJsVMg1jQ?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Or a more modern blues Christmas song by Joe Bonamassa&#8230; also called &#8220;Lonesome Christmas&#8221; but it&#8217;s not the same tune, just the same title.<\/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=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>I hope these add a little extra blue cheer to your holiday and that you have a wonderful day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since it&#8217;s Christmas and you might be feeling a little full of egg nog&#8230; how about some nice Christmas blues songs \ud83d\ude42 First, Clarence Carter with a little &#8220;Back Door Santa&#8230;&#8221; But I couldn&#8217;t help but make a listening lesson here and show you another way you could play the same tune. Check out BB [&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\/6458"}],"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=6458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6459,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions\/6459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}