Canadian Christmas, The Falcons (Falcon Beach)

From 2004, this instrumental group recorded this album in Vancouver, which is appropriate, as this is a collection of West Coast 60s-style instrumentals of familiar Christmas carols. Although you'll hear surf music in this collection, there's also nods to Western swing and Cliff Richards' Shadows in their approach and song selection. "Jingle Bells" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," for example, combine swing and bluegrass influences, "Angels On High" has a Joe Meek-Phil Spector flavor about it, "Deck the Halls" throws in just a hint of "Tequila," "We Three Kings" nods to the Animals' version of "House of the Rising Sun," and "Jingle Bell Rock" hews closely to the almost-country sound of the Bobby Helms original. The one left-of-center choice is a cover of The Chessmen's early 1960s hit "Meadowlands," adapted from a Russian folk song. A nice selection of instrumentals. Amazon has it for download and streaming, but hardcopy was scarce at this writing.