Sunday, November 22, 2009


Santa Claus goes straight to the ghetto
Lets face it, xmas music is crap. Lame jazz versions of xmas carols, riddled with lyrics about about playing in the snow - completely irrelevant when we go to the beach for xmas down in this part of the world.
 
Strut is about to drop a mad xmas album (nice takeoff of a James Brown LP cover for the art), try this sample below for size. 

JD McDonald- "Boogaloo Santa Claus" (mediafire) (zshare)
From: In The Christmas Groove, November 24th on Strut http://www.inthechristmasgroove.com

1. J.D. McDonald – Boogaloo Santa Claus

2. Jimmy Reed - Christmas Present Blues

3. Electric Jungle - Funky Funky Christmas

4. Funk Machine - Soul Santa

5. Milly & Silly - Getting Down For Xmas

6. The Harlem Children's Chorus - Black Christmas

8. Isaac Clarke - Santa Claus Is Coming To town
9. Captain Elmo McKenzie & The Roosters - Home On Christmas Day

10. Soul Saints Orchestra - Santa's Got A Bag of Soul

11. Zebra - Christmas Morning

12. Harvey Averne Band - Let's Get It Together This Christmas

13. Jimmy Jules - The New Year

14. The Black On White Affair - Auld Lang Syne 

And the title of this post is a song title taken from James Brown's Funky Christmas CD, which compiles the best tracks off the three Christmas LPs Mr Brown released during his career. You need that CD too.

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