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Hillbilly Holiday - Various Artists (1988)

This is a collection of Christmas songs by country singers. The oldest song is from 1945 and the most recent one is from 1972. Hillbilly Holiday is a terrific 18-track compilation of classic country Christmas songs. Much of this is somewhat humorous, whether it is intentional (Commander Cody's "Daddy Drinking Up Our Christmas," and Hank Snow's "Reindeer Boogie") or not (Tex Ritter's "Christmas Carols by the Old Corral"), and that just adds to the fun of the collection. Many of the biggest names in country music -- including Ernest Tubb, George Jones, Buck Owens, Loretta Lynn, the Louvin Brothers, Faron Young, and Johnny Horton -- are on the collection, and many of these songs are forgotten classics, such as Tubb's "I'll Be Walkin' the Floor this Christmas," Owens' "Santa Looked a Lot like Daddy," and Lynn's "To Heck with Ole Santa Claus." For most country fans -- especially fans of classic country -- Hillbilly Holiday is one of the essential Christmas albums. The CD contains four bonus tracks from Young, Horton, Owens, and the Davis Sisters.

Tracks:

01. Christmas Time's A-Coming - Bill Monroe

02. Christmas Carols by the Old Corral - Tex Ritter (1945)

03. I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus - Brenda Lee (1956)

04. I'll Be Walking the Floor This Christmas - Ernest Tubb, Ernest Tubb & The Texas Troubadors (1954)

05. Reindeer Boogie - Hank Snow (1953)

06. Gonna Wrap My Heart in Ribbons - Hank Thompson (1964)

07. Po' Folks Christmas - Bill Anderson (1968)

08. Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy - Buck Owens (1965)

09. Pretty Paper - Willie Nelson

10. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - The Louvin Brothers (1961)

11. My Mom and Santa Claus - George Jones (1962)

12. One of You (In Every Size) - Marty Robbins (1967)

13. To Heck With Ole Santa Claus - Loretta Lynn (1966)

14. Daddy's Drinking up Our Christmas - Commander Cody (1972)

15. I'm Gonna Tell Santa Claus on You - Faron Young (1953)

16. They Shined up Rudolph's Nose - Johnny Horton (1959)

17. Christmas Boogie - The Davis Sisters (1953)

18. Christmas Time's A-Coming - Buck Owens (1965)

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Rhino records did a great service to country fans when they released this collection of rare country Christmas songs that had been unobtainable. Since then some tracks, including those by Brenda Lee and Buck Owens, have been released on CD's by the individual artists, but most have not. Now that this collection is out of print, those tracks that have not been re-issued elsewhere are again hard to find. Brenda Lee's I'm gonna lasso Santa Claus is a socially-aware song about how Santa discriminates against the poor. Two Buck Owens tracks are featured - his classic Santa looked a lot like Daddy and Christmas time's a-coming - this latter being an original song, not to be confused with the Bill Monroe song of the same title that opens this collection. Bill's song has become a standard on bluegrass Christmas albums. This collection contains many rarities from (mostly) the fifties and sixties by George Jones (My mom and Santa Claus), Tex Ritter (Christmas carols by the old corral), Ernest Tubb (not his classic Blue Christmas, which is easy to find, but I'll be walking the floor this Christmas), Hank Snow (Reindeer boogie, revived by Trisha Yearwood on her excellent Christmas album, Sweetest gift), Faron Young (I'm gonna tell Santa Claus on you), Loretta Lynn (To heck with ole Santa Claus) and Christmas boogie (Davis sisters). If you are into country music of the fifties and sixties and you enjoy original Christmas music, it doesn't get better than this. Only Pretty paper (Willie Nelson) and It came upon the might clear (Louvin brothers) are versions of songs that are well known - in Willie's case, the original version. Rhino Record's Hillbilly Holiday (1988, now sadly out-of-print) mines the rich vein of Christmas gold running though the golden age of country music - from the post-war 40s through the early 70's, when the smooth countrypolitan sound removed the "hillbilly" from country music. Subsequently, the outlaw country of Waylon and Willie began to seriously challenge Nashville's supremacy, but the dynamic had been irrevocably altered. The eighteen songs herein barely begin to tell the story (no Gene Autry, for instance), but they serve as an excellent introduction for neophytes and function as an adequate summary for casual fans. To my ears, fully sixteen of these songs qualify as absolutely essential, fine examples of the best these artists had to offer. The other two cuts (by hillbilly heroes Bill Monroe and Willie Nelson) are just fine - they're simply less-than-definitive performances of songs defined by other artists (Mac Wiseman and Roy Orbison, to be precise). The earliest cut on Hillbilly Holiday is Tex Ritter's "Christmas Carols By The Old Corral" (1945), characterized by the old-timey, western-movie feel typical of much country music of the day. Just a few years later, we witness the Davis Sisters (featuring Skeeter Davis) shoving the Nashville sound into the space age with "Christmas Boogie," and things rarely slow down thereafter. We barrel through the 50's and 60's like a runaway eighteen-wheeler carrying cargo by some of the the brightest lights in country music - Ernest Tubb, Faron Young, Hank Snow, Loretta Lynn. Not to be believed, however, is George Jones' goofy twistin' novelty, "My Mom And Santa Claus." As Nashville lost its grip on power and reality in the 70's, good country Christmas records became few and far between, indeed (see entries for Emmylou Harris and Dwight Yoakam). Hillbilly Holiday closes, then, in 1972 with Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, an outlaw band whose "Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas" bears all the hallmarks of a classic country weeper. It serves as a reminder of the glories of country Christmas past, and it gives hope that there may be a Hillbilly Holiday on the calendar someday once again. randysrodeo.com

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hillbilly Apocryphal attribution to isolated denizens of Appalachian Mountains,(Eastern USA) descendants of some of the earliest Scotch-English settlers, who seem to have had some proclivity for naming their children "William" (familiarly "Bill")and some not inconsiderable inclination to incestuous sexual congress. More recently, the term is used to describe any rural resident,especially in the Southern USA and particularly those living in rather rough-hewn conditions, embracing noticably parochial ideologies and a generally hostile attitude. urbandictionary.com

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