Christmas Music

Ever since the original animated television special The Grinch Who Stole Christmas first aired in 1966, its featured song, You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch, has been a holiday staple. On the off chance you are old enough to read

With the holiday season in full swing, it’s the time of year when Christmas songs start to fill our playlists from morning til night. While I'm always up for hearing a rousing version of Christmas Times A-Comin', it's also nice to

Kristy Cox shares wistful feelings of homesickness during the holidays in her new single for Billy Blue Records, Christmas Without You. Though Cox lives near Nashville with her children, a part of her heart remains in her native Australia, where memories

Pinecastle Records is putting forward The Life of Jesus as a Christmas single for Ashleigh Graham, one of the tracks on her current debut album, I'll Just Drive. The Life of Jesus, written by Rickey Graves, is for those who

Brand New Box of Matches, the Knoxville-based duo of Ryan Hardison and Elizabeth Sherman, have released not one, but two new Christmas singles this season. They've recorded a pair of holiday classics, with several of their friends helping out. First up

Fiddle Express is a sibling trio from Idaho consisting of Andrew, Eliza, and Rachel Beck. They perform both picking and singing, but their Christmas release for Gravy Records is a medley of instrumental arrangements of holiday fare, titled A Christmas

Celebrated fiddler, composer, and violinist Mark O'Connor is marking the holidays again this year with his An Appalachian Christmas tour, featuring his wife, fellow fiddler Maggie O'Connor. This year they will be performing music from their new album, A Christmas Duo,

Pinecastle Records is getting into the holiday spirit with a new song from Daryl Mosley, a nostalgic look at Christmas gifts that failed to thrill called Socks and Underwear. We call all remember eyeing a brightly-colored packaged, tied up with ribbon,

Jacob Underwood, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and third-generation grasser, has released a new album of Christmas music this month. It's titled Christmas Greetings from Jacob Underwood: Songs for a Merry Christmas, containing 12 tracks of holiday favorites, recorded with bluegrass and acoustic

Here's a Christmas offering from Dear Maribella & the Pigkickers, the Trakimowicz siblings from Hampstead, NC, who have made a mark of late with their family bluegrass sound. They have created a grassy arrangement of the holiday classic Silver Bells,