Mixtape
dfbm #109 - Christmas Morning Raga Pt. 22

Welcome to the Christmas season with festive guitar solis, two banjo pieces and one fiddle tune.

TL;DR

There is quite a gap between the last mixes and reviews here on this site and this fresh new holiday mix. I would love to talk about what happened, but it's just as half as important compared to what many other people experienced, like loss of income or loved ones.

I could bemoan that Christmas here where I live is always white and this year it's just a bit frost in the morning and during the day sunshine and bright blue sky or it's just gray.

Anyways - for 1,5 hours you can dive into a steel-string solo-guitarscape that includes the obligatory Fahey Christmas tunes, an imaginary tour through Winter Wonderland and cozy solo guitar, home-alone at Christmas-Eve extravaganza (more like intravaganza).

And just shortly after I finished up this mix, Italian blues scholar and steel string guitarist Roberto Menabò sent me a rendition of "Silent Night" - so here it is:

I hope you enjoy this mix and I hope you still like the format (zip, mixcloud stream), because I'm not going to deal with that one big streaming service. Buy your music on bandcamp write an email to artists and argue with people that getting the vaccine when possible and wearing that mask when needed is kind of important, so we can go to concerts again and doing all that stuff that is missing right now.

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Tracklist

1. Sean Smith Christmas Morning (Improvisation I) Christmas 2013 web
2. Lukas Read Deep Winter Rag Neo Age 2016 web
3. C Joynes Christmas Medley: I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In / In The Bleak Midwinter / The Holly And The Ivy God Feeds The Ravens 2008 web
4. Josh Kimbrough Good King Wencelas Yule Chime 2020 web
5. Wall Matthews Carol of the Bells The Heart of Winter: Christmas Guitar web
6. Mariano Rodriguez El turrón de Alicante y el clima subtropical Liberation Theology for beginners. 2014 web
7. Sam Moss I'll Be Home For Christmas Christmas Classics 2014 web
8. Glenn Jones A Different Kind Of Christmas Carol The Giant Who Ate Himself and Other New Works For 6 & 12 String Guitar 2018 web
9. Anthony Pasquarosa Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Christmas with Fireplace 2019 discogs
10. Gratton Winter's Wisp Willow House 2016 web
11. Clive Palmer Christmas Carol Clive Palmer's Banjoland 2005 discogs
12. Robbie Basho Hindu Christmas Carol Song of the Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes 2020 web
13. Cody Lee George God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen Child of the Holy Spirit: Christmas Carols for Solo Guitar 2018 web
14. Bill Orcutt Christmas On Earth Bill Orcutt 2017 web
15. John Fahey Go I Will Send Thee The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album 1968 discogs
16. Ragtime Ralph White Christmas Volume 4 2009 discogs
17. Richard Osborn Winter Moon In The Oak Tree Freehand 2015 web
18. Kerem Atalay Winter 2 Summer Winter 2018 web
19. John Fahey/Terry Robb Winter Wonderland Live TV 1983 discogs
20. Sean Siegfried Apples In Winter Backwoods 2011 discogs
21. Mariano Rodriguez El hijo del carpintero Cintas de Navidad 2020 web
22. George Stavis Winter Doldrums Labyrinths 1969 discogs
23. The Black Twig Pickers Old Christmas Morning Rough Carpenters 2013 web
24. Maurizio Angeletti Last Winter's Sigh Windows Over The Stream 1981 discogs
25. Mark McGuire Carol of the Bells Do You Hear What I Hear 2018 discogs
26. Sean Smith Christmas Eve (Improvisation II) Christmas 2013 web