Holiday Band Aid, various artists (RBM)

An Atlanta-based record label got local bands to put together this album of Christmas tunes to benefit the Red Cross for 2001, a popular choice in the wake of 9/11. This has Another Man Down's "Dreidel Song" and that tune is a good harbinger of the other treats in store on the album. The Dan Adams Band does a 90s "Unplugged" version of "O Holy Night," Big Sky's "Happy Skalidays" is a great holiday party song with licks of other carols snuck in, Adam Hood does a more countrified "Merry Christmas From the Family," Three 5 Human does a hard-rock vocal "Carol of the Bells" and "Jingle Bell Rock" gets an even heavier treatment from Forced Entry. John Lennon's "Happy Xmas" gets a capable reading from Marathon, and Cornbread sneaks a little "Let It Be" into "The First Noel." Nice work for a good cause. It's long out of print, though Amazon was showing used copies when I reposted this.