Download “Merry Christmas Y’all” by Asleep at the Wheel on iTunes!
What I love most about Asleep at the Wheel’s “Merry Christmas Y’all” is that they did a Christmas song that stays true to their sound–plenty of fiddle and steel guitar. This is one you can get up and dance to! And if you’ve [...]
Download Buck Owens Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy on iTunes!
Well, we’re getting really close to Christmas now, and in my listening in the last few weeks, I’ve realized there are a ton of classic country Christmas songs that I haven’t included on my list that I probably could have. The other day I [...]
Download Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree on iTunes
This song isn’t just a country Christmas classic, it’s a Christmas classic period. Case in point, just last night we were out to dinner and Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree came on. My wife, who was born in South America and only lived [...]
Download Jerry Jeff Walker’s The Twelve Days of Christmas from iTunes!
Jerry Jeff Walker’s version of the 12 Days of Christmas off the album Christmas Gonzo style is my absolute incarnation of this song ever. The best justice I can do this song is to simply list all of the items his true love [...]
Download Ray Stevens Santa Claus Is Watching You on iTunes!
“He’s everywhere! He’s everywhere!”
Cheesy? Maybe a little, but it’s a Christmas song, and it is very funny, especially for kids. And there’s nothing wrong with something being clean and funny. When I was a kid I loved Ray Stevens songs because the lyrics were [...]
Download Lyle Lovett’s Christmas Morning on iTunes
Why is it that so many of the songs I chose for my list of favorite classic country Christmas songs are sad? Hard Candy Christmas, If We Make it Through December, and Lyle Lovett’s Christmas Morning all appear on this list for a very good reason–they are [...]
Willie Nelson’s quintessential Christmas song was included on his 1979 album by the same name. It’s one of my all time favorites. Very short, very poetic, and sung in a way that pretty much discourages anyone else from even attempting it.
Crowded streets busy feet hustle by you
Downtown shoppers Christmas is nigh
There he sits all [...]
There was a time when everyone did a Christmas album–everyone. I can honestly say that Alabama’s Christmas album is one of my all time favorites. Christmas in Dixie was the biggest hit, but Tennessee Christmas was a favorite as well. The thing that sets this album apart from most other Christmas albums [...]
Download Elvis Presley’s Blue Christmas on iTunes!
Yep, the King of Rock and Roll has one of my all time Classic Country Christmas songs. Actually, a lot of Elvis’s influences were very country, and some of his biggest songs were written by country legends like Jerry Reed and Mac Davis. Plus I remember my grandmother, a [...]
Download Dolly Parton’s Hard Candy Christmas on iTunes
This one is not really a Christmas song. In fact, it was part of the Soundrack to “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”. Still, she mentions Christmas in it, and this is one of my favorite Dolly Parton songs.
One thing this song does offer us is [...]
Download Robert Earl Keen’s Merry Christmas From the Family on iTunes!
Mom got drunk and dad got drunk
At our Christmas party
The opening lines of this song set the stage for the rest of if. You know exactly what this song is going to be about from the get go. Imagine Cousin Eddy from Christmas Vacation. Now [...]
Download Merle Haggard If We Make it Through December on iTunes
Like any really good country song should be, this one is sad–a family going through a tough time and planning on trying their luck somewhere else. The dad just “got laid off down at the factory”, and his young daughter doesn’t understand that things are [...]
Download these classic country Christmas songs on iTunes!
For the holidays I thought I’d write about 12 of my favorite Classic Country Christmas songs. I was going to do this anyway, and then I found this group writing project sponsored by Litemind that ties in really well with it. I’ll go ahead and post the whole [...]
