Songs of the Holiday

Rock around the Christmas tree with Bob Dylan, Otis Redding, Leonard Cohen, Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, Marvin Gaye, Brandi Carlile, Robert Earl Keen and Steve Earle.

A few tunes to keep you warm (or even up and dancing) on the Eve of Christmas. In order: Otis Redding, Louis Armstrong, Leonard Cohen (with “Silent Night,” no less), Robert Earl Keen’s immortal “Christmas from the Family,” two from the little drummer Bob (Dylan), Marvin Gaye, Chuck Berry, Brandi Carlile covering Joni Mitchell, and Steve Earle’s plea for Woody Guthrie to come back at Christmas and save Washington, D.C. Now that’s the holiday spirit! Enjoy, rock around the Christmas tree, and subscribe here, it’s still free (and already unwrapped)!

Otis, “Merry Christmas Baby”

Louis, “Christmas in New Orleans”

Leonard, “Silent Night”

Robert Earl Keen, classic live

Bob, buh-rump-a-dumpa-dum

Marvelous Marv wants to come home

Santa Chuck

Brandi skating along Joni’s “River”

Steve Earle, a Christmas protest