Christmas records

And where are the recommendations for Christmas records, I hear you asking? This year's festive treat has to be Wooden Shjips' 12" (in appropriate green or red vinyl) of 'O Tannenbaum' and 'Auld Lang Syne' - so you can keep playing it through till January. Their usual chugging stoner groove - lovely stuff.

The traditional record in our house to accompany tree decoration, present wrapping, etc is a Ze Records compilation from 1982

which includes The Waitresses' wonderful "Christmas Wrapping" alongside the much more obscure, but equally wonderful, 'It's a Big Country' by Davitt Sigerson. Worth hunting down if you're not allergic to tear-jerkers...

And to listen to at dinner time, Carla Bley's Carla's Chrismas Carols - quirky jazz that won't frighten jazz-hating horses...

Have a good one.