#786 Sound Opinions Holiday Spectacular 2020

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🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot welcome our crate-digging Kris Kringle, Andy Cirzan to share great holiday songs that aren't played-out. This year the mix is blues-themed in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Slim Seward & Fat Boy Hayes, "Christmas Time Blues," (Single), MGM, 1948

Sonny Boy Williamson I, "Christmas Morning Blues," Bluebird Blues, RCA, 1970

Lowell Fulson, "Wanna Spend Christmas With You," (Single), Kent, 1967

Cecil Gant, "Hello Santa Claus," (Single), Decca, 1950

Lenny Dee, "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!," Happy Holi-Dee, Decca, 1961

Freddie King, "Christmas Tears," (Single), Federal, 1960

Hop Wilson, "Merry Christmas Darling," (Single), Ivory, Unknown

Sonny Boy Williamson II, "Sonny Boy's Christmas Blues," (Single), Trumpet, 1951

Jimmy Reed, "Christmas Present Blues," (Single), RRG, 1971

The Three Suns, "Winter Wonderland," The Sound of Christmas, Camden, 1961

Jimmy McCracklin, "Christmas Time Pt 1," (Single), Art-Tone, 1961

Albert King, "Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'," (Single), Stax, 1974

B.B. King, "Christmas Celebration," (Single), Kent, 1960

Bartees Strange, "Mustang," Live Forever, Memory Music, 2020

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0:00.0	This is Sound Opinions and it is time now for our holiday spectacular with Andy
0:05.3	Surzan 15 years bringing Andy to public radio Greg. He did it many years before that with us and he works for Jam Productions one of the biggest
0:16.2	concert promoters in the Midwest based here in Chicago but his first love is finding exotic
0:22.3	obscure and otherwise forgotten Christmas music.
0:26.8	Every year he makes a mixtape of his finds and every year we are lucky to have him share it with us and our listeners even in these difficult
0:36.6	times. Andy welcome back to sound opinions. Thanks for having me back everybody.
0:41.6	You know it was kind of hard to work up the holiday spirit this year wasn't it?
0:45.5	Yeah, I mean I have to be honest when I say there were times when I was like I can't do this
0:51.6	I just couldn't use any of the stuff that I put together because you know it was all
0:57.0	over the place and kind of goofy sort of you know I try to be serious sometimes but it was
1:01.8	it felt inappropriate you know to like throw some big
1:05.2	goofy Christmas party with all the chaos going on and then over the years I've made a number of genre
1:10.9	specific compilations and I done soul, Santa Soul, I did the jazz thing, the jingle-jangle
1:17.0	jazz party. I never done the blues and I decided that this is probably the year to do it because you know it fairly
1:27.9	appropriate and all I can say is I'm just really happy as we're taping this. One of my main reasons for having the
1:34.4	blues besides the virus was our political reality and I'm just super psyched
1:39.2	on how that's turned out and so I'm feeling a lot better next year I promise I'm going to get back into
1:44.0	doing what I normally do with the holiday obscure thing but well I dare say you know
1:48.6	there's nobody with a heart and conscience this year that didn't have the blues at some point Andy.
1:56.0	The blues isn't about wallowing in misery, it's about catharsis and coming out to the other side. Not just that, but sharing the pain of a reality, you know, and a lot of the, almost all the great
2:09.7	blues songs have to do with trying to work your way through some kind of issues in your life,
2:15.5	whether it's your livelihood or relationships or whatever. I mean that's the
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