Jorma Kaukonen : Holiday Marmalade [ purchase ] I grew up a secular Jew celebrating Hanukkah, and I think that the limit of my celeb...

Christine Lavin & The Mistletones : A Christmas / Kwanzaa / Solstice / Chanukah / Ramadan / Boxing Day Song [ purchase Christine ...

The Invincible Czars: Arabian Dance [ purchase ] Welcome to a week of musical transformations for the holidays. What do I mean by th...

Nightmare : Akahana no Tonakai (Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer) unavailable for purchase It's not that I don't like some...

Cheech & Chong : The Police Got My Car [ purchase Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Christmas Novelty CD of All Time ] Christmas...

Bluesboy Jag: Wassail Song Source (it is a free download embedded in a zipped file) On the one hand, I applaud the “cigar box” concep...

Sugarland: Nuttin' For Christmas [ purchase ] The crass commercialism of the holidays has always seemed to me the ugliest part of ...

[ purchase ] Other than “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer,” I can’t really think of a holiday song that I truly hate. There are some t...

Let me open the new week on Star Maker Machine with a wish and a warning. First, let me wish our readers the very best of holiday season...

Sarah Jarosz: Ring Them Bells (orig. Bob Dylan) [ purchase ] Our "rings" theme was designed to honor the Olympics, but even a...

Rocky Votolato : Makers [ purchase ] One of the many things that I have enjoyed over the past (nearly) year contributing to this blog...

Uncle Dave Macon : Governor Al Smith [ purchase Uncle Dave Macon: The Very Best of ] A topical song recorded by Uncle Dave Macon in ...

Grateful Dead: Casey Jones Pete Seeger: Casey Jones [ purchase Grateful Dead version ] [ purchase Pete Seeger version ] Earlier...

Warren Zevon : Werewolves of London [ purchase Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy ] This week’s theme got me immediately thinking about unic...

[ purchase the Drive-By Truckers’ version with Jason Isbell on lead ] [ purchase Jason Isbell’s live album being released on November 19,...

Mark Erelli: Hollow Man [ purchase ] Chuck E Costa: Hollow Man (Mark Erelli cover) [ purchase ] I grew up in a house where it was co...

Todd Snider : You Got Away With It [ purchase ] WARNING—VITRIOL AHEAD: I wasn’t fast enough to make this a transitional post from “...

John Prine: YouTube version of Grandpa Was A Carpenter John Prine: [ download it @ Amazon ] A few weeks back, we were looking at L...

Norman and Nancy Blake : We've Got Franklin D. Roosevelt Back Again [ purchase New Lost City Ramblers: Songs from the Depression ]...

YouTube link to FDR in Trinidad (Attila the Hun) YouTube link to FDR in Trinidad (Ry Cooder) Amazon link to purchase Ry Cooder versi...