"I Hear Jingle Bells" and "Christmas Tears," Freddie King (Federal)

The copy I have was issued in 1975, but I don't know if this was the original release. Freddie was the lesser-known of the three virtuoso blues guitarists named King, but he was a major influence on Eric Clapton. These two tunes fill the bill quite well if you need a Christmas blues, "I Hear Jingle Bells" being the uptempo number while "Tears" is a slow blues. Bob Bailey lets us know this pair of tunes is from 1961, and while they've been on compilations and even a Freddie King album, the versions out there appear to be dubbed from vinyl copies, and mediocre ones at that.