"Christmas Kiss"/"Hell of a Year," Grub Dog (self-issued)

We reviewed "Merry Xmas (From Your Ex-Girlfriend)" by this artist a few years back, and he obligingly sent along these two tunes to see what we thought. The first one is a country lament from 2005, a nice emotional song, and the latter is a mostly instrumental nod, fiddle-led, to the end of the year. It won't substitute for "Auld Lang Syne" as the closer for your mix discs, but it's well played. He's got several more holiday tunes at his MySpace page for the holidays, too.