Are there new CHRISTMAS songs ,,,,,?

Henry · Post by **Henry** » 15 Dec 2016 10:00 am

Hi i hope to find some NEW (country,,?)ChristmasSongs !

ThanX
H.

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 15 Dec 2016 7:12 pm

Not really new, but many probably haven't heard it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWnz8VsH5w0

Bob Blair · Post by **Bob Blair** » 15 Dec 2016 9:04 pm

I played on this EP a couple of years back with Andrea House who I have been playing with for quite a few years now, and who in addition to being a terrific actress, singer and songwriter is a wonderful person and a dear friend. "This Christmas Day" is a new Christmas song written by Andrea. You can hear a bit on the iTunes preview. The EP is also available from CD Babies I think. https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/this- ... d789303903

Jeff Garden · Post by **Jeff Garden** » 17 Dec 2016 8:21 am

This one is about 25 years old ("new" compared to traditional Christmas songs) and I never get tired of it. Lisa Layne was the original singer in the group "Vince Vance and the Valiants"...I think LeeAnn Rimes recorded it later as well.
Nice chords and it lays out well on steel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqHN0oTvzKw

here's Lisa doing it 20 years later with a little steel in the background

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WXWwhh7agI

Graham · Post by **Graham** » 17 Dec 2016 1:46 pm

Another not really new (1993)but a great song with "E" doing the honors on steel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGr0ihI_HfE

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 17 Dec 2016 10:08 pm

here's Lisa doing it 20 years later with a little steel in the background

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WXWwhh7agI[/quote]

Jeff,
just an observation, during the Tele solo the camera shows the steel player as if he was playing this.

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 17 Dec 2016 10:29 pm

It seems that every songwriter in the world has tried to write a popular Christmas song. They all fail. It's the golden nugget. If you write a new Christmas standard, you'll be set for life.

There's a new CD out that I played a small part in, as a fundraiser for KRCB public radio. It's called Holiday Connections 2016, and it's all local artists from Sonoma County, California. Some of the songs are standards, but most of them are original Christmas songs.

http://jackaloperecords.com/krcb-fm-hol ... pact-disc/

I play on the song "Tiny Reindeer" by Solid Air.

Jeff Garden · Post by **Jeff Garden** » 18 Dec 2016 3:38 am

Joachim: yes, I was hoping the steel player would take part 2 of the break but it never happened. You can hear a few steel pads in the background throughout the song that "country" things up nicely though.

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 18 Dec 2016 5:01 am

Ha..!!! I'm kinda the opposite, I'm glad there are no "NEW " New Country Christmas songs that replace the classics.

As Bob says above, people try to write them, bands try to play them and they go over like bricks falling from the sky. The thing about it is the traditional songs have seasonal romance and charm to the lyrics and melody's, those big hat singers songs have zero seasonal charm and silly lyrics. You would never find any of those songs on the Goodyear or Firestone Christmas albums !

I'm happy playing a few of the standards on Steel which everyone loves and sings along to , for two or three gigs each year.

Then I put them away until next year, in a box, where they belong.

Play White Christmas and you have an entire room that will sing along , play Run Rudolph Run and everyone sits and watches while you play Johnny B Goode at a Christmas party. ! $:\$ But I did play and sing that one twice this weekend because the band leader wanted it.

If you are playing a Christmas event or party , you can play all the modern Christmas songs you want 'till the cows come home but you might want to have a few standards ready to go as well.

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Dale Rottacker · Post by **Dale Rottacker** » 18 Dec 2016 6:57 am

Tony Prior wrote:Ha..!!! I'm kinda the opposite, I'm glad there are no "NEW " New Country Christmas songs that replace the classics.
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My wife and I were talking about this the other day... for us, ALL we need it stuff like White Christmas/Silent Night/Little Town of Bethlehem,... the likes of Dean Martin/Nat King Cole/Johnny Mathis... “Just the Hit’s Ma’am, Just the Hit’s"

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 18 Dec 2016 9:20 am

The Christmas "classics" are arguably more about nostalgia than anything else - obviously, no new songs are going to have that attribute..

scott murray · Post by **scott murray** » 18 Dec 2016 4:20 pm

Loretta Lynn just released a Christmas album with a newly penned tune or two, including the title track:

White Christmas Blue

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 27 Dec 2016 12:06 pm

I don't know if it's new or old, but this is pretty, probably Jaydee Maness on steel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X5OgSk ... X5OgSkqnQk

Chris Bauer · Post by **Chris Bauer** » 30 Dec 2016 8:11 pm

Here's a recently-written Christmas song done by one of the bands I play with. Fun changes to play over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43QwyMDFqOc

Jamie Mitchell · Post by **Jamie Mitchell** » 31 Dec 2016 5:54 am

https://youtu.be/Lh_0SMhZgZs
https://youtu.be/nUfp5-p860U
https://youtu.be/lKA1SnWz7lc
https://youtu.be/IippcraBPKA

Frank Freniere · Post by **Frank Freniere** » 1 Jan 2017 3:06 pm

Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas" comes to mind re: new (non-country) Christmas classics.

Skip Edwards · Post by **Skip Edwards** » 3 Jan 2017 5:36 pm

A couple weeks ago - right before Christmas - I OD'd a bunch of stuff on this one...
"Spirit of Love" Lynn Carey Saylor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=734bgrrJ7vo

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 3 Jan 2017 5:57 pm

Destined to become a holiday classic, "Christmas is Now".

https://youtu.be/FrG-xzcL2K0

If that link doesn't work, try this one:

https://youtu.be/wUHcoAYJWx0?t=2m23s

Tom Keller · Post by **Tom Keller** » 5 Jan 2017 6:29 pm

Kacey Musgraves had a great Christmas album out this year. The title was unfortunate but you can't have it all. A Very Kacey Christmas. Here is my favorite from the album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwhP9jZWTR8

Tom Keller