Christmas Music

This past Saturday, Authentic Unlimited hosted their first of soon to be many annual Christmas shows at the Field of Dreams Activity Center in Dandridge, TN.  Before the show, Jerry Cole's longtime friend, John Williams, led off with a reading of

Veteran guitarist, vocalist, and solo artist Jim Hurst has released a music video as his 2024 offering for the Christmas season. It's a lovely treatment of the classic hymn, Silent Night, which he recorded with his Gallagher Jim Hurst Signature Series

Is it really Christmas time until we listen to Christmas Time's A-Comin'? Banjo Ben Clark and several members of the staff at Banjo Ben's General Store, have just released a video with their version of the Tex Logan classic, recorded by

Last year Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers cut a swinging bluegrass version of Reindeer Boogie for their Because It's Christmas Time album with Billy Blue Records. There's no new Christmas music from them for 2024, but they did create this

Michigan's Full Cord made a trip to Nashville to cut a Christmas single for their label, Dark Shadow Recording, a new song co-written by the band's mandolinist, which he also sings. Christmas Cheer, from Brian Oberlin and Joe New, is a

Sierra Hull has released a limited edition 7'' vinyl Christmas record called Holiday Favorites Vol 1, with two new tracks for the 2024 season. For the A side she's chosen Country Christmas, a classic from Loretta Lynn's first Christmas album in

Engelhardt Music Group has an entry among the bluegrass Christmas offerings for 2024, a new release from Tina Adair called Christmas In My Mountain Home. It's a charming song that should stir up all sorts of memories of the holidays

New Direction Bluegrass, a regional bluegrass band based out of Siler City, NC, has released a new Christmas project, Is It Christmas Yet? The four-piece ensemble features the husband-wife team of Bobby Gales on banjo/guitar and Christy Gales on upright

For their 2024 Christmas single for Mountain Fever Records, British Columbia's Jackson Hollow has resurrected Brenda Lee's wonderful cajun-themed song, Papa Noel. The original was the flip side of Brenda's 1958 holiday smash, Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree, recorded when she

For their 2024 Christmas single on Thoroughbred Records, bluegrass gospel stalwarts Chosen Road have chosen How Many Kings, a song written by Jason Germain and Marc Martel, and originally recorded by their band, downhere, in 2009. Also featured on the track,