This is an ongoing campaign to raise funds to fight pediatric cancer by compiling holiday songs performed by alt-rock-Americana performers. This is the 2011 version, and almost every band represented here has composed a song for the occasion. The buzz cut from this collection is definitely the Unmentionables' "Santa Looks a Lot Like Billly Gibbons," a ZZ Top tribute that has a rockin' Santa in a Model A hotrod sleigh who looks like, well, you know. Fried Goat kicks things off in rocking style with "Barn," an inventory of the manger scene, and Jaycee Ward follows with the countrified "It's Christmas Everywhere." The Vellotones stay in the Americana groove with "Best Things About Christmas," which are the usual: family, friends and love, things that are free. Sibling String asks you to "Smile For Me," and the Livingroom Legends muster a kind of Tom Petty groove on "The Christmas Men." Five's A Crowd want to just stay home with you on "Christmas Love," Radar Cinema get a little noisy on "Christmas Melody 5," and Third Shift breaks out the horns to fete a "Funky Santa." Joy Krueger supports the troops with the ballad "Soldier's Lullaby," The Wombats offer the pensive "Shadows and Whispers," and Jim Perkins' "Somebody Like You" is more of a conventional love song with no Christmas trappings. This is a decent collection by less familiar artists that could easily become your favorites, and all for a good cause.
The 12 Bands of Christmas Volume 8, various artists (12 Bands of Christmas)
This is an ongoing campaign to raise funds to fight pediatric cancer by compiling holiday songs performed by alt-rock-Americana performers. This is the 2011 version, and almost every band represented here has composed a song for the occasion. The buzz cut from this collection is definitely the Unmentionables' "Santa Looks a Lot Like Billly Gibbons," a ZZ Top tribute that has a rockin' Santa in a Model A hotrod sleigh who looks like, well, you know. Fried Goat kicks things off in rocking style with "Barn," an inventory of the manger scene, and Jaycee Ward follows with the countrified "It's Christmas Everywhere." The Vellotones stay in the Americana groove with "Best Things About Christmas," which are the usual: family, friends and love, things that are free. Sibling String asks you to "Smile For Me," and the Livingroom Legends muster a kind of Tom Petty groove on "The Christmas Men." Five's A Crowd want to just stay home with you on "Christmas Love," Radar Cinema get a little noisy on "Christmas Melody 5," and Third Shift breaks out the horns to fete a "Funky Santa." Joy Krueger supports the troops with the ballad "Soldier's Lullaby," The Wombats offer the pensive "Shadows and Whispers," and Jim Perkins' "Somebody Like You" is more of a conventional love song with no Christmas trappings. This is a decent collection by less familiar artists that could easily become your favorites, and all for a good cause.
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