A traditional Christmas Dinner is on the menu for today, with all the ingredients and components provided in the music.  First we make the pudding, then relax with a cleansing ale and an entree of prawns, followed by ham and turkey with vegetables and lashings of gravy, all washed down with red wine.  Dessert is the puddin', with Lots of Drops of Brandy and Whipped Cream.  There is also some seasonal entertainment, including a jug band (although I'm not quite sure what that has to do with Christmas ).  Because it is likely to be quite warm on the day (28 degrees celsius) Elixir give us some advice on how to keep cool.  We finish off with a cup of tea as made in the bush.

 

 

TRACK / ARTIST / ALBUM / LABEL

 

 

CALLING ON SONG / The Cottars / On Fire! / Greentrax (theme) 

 

ZITHER CAROL / Vocal Manoeuvres /  Silent Night - Christmas Carols / Christmas Gold

 

BUTTER / Christine Lavin, Julie Gold, Megon McDonough, Sally Fingerett / Buy Me, Bring Me, Take Me: Don't Mess My Hair / Philo

 

SUGAR IN THE GOURD / Farmer's Daughters / Farmer's Daughters / Heritage

 

EGGS IN HER BASKET / Susan McKeown / Sweet Liberty / World Village

 

DON'T GET ABOVE YOUR RAISIN' /  Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys / Lonesome Valley / Manteca

 

OBELISK FLOUR / Little Roy Lewis, Earl Scruggs & Lizzy Long / Lifetimes / Vine Records

 

WHISKEY & WOMEN / Robin Laing / The Angels' Share / Greentrax

 

ED MCNALLY'S ALES / Wild Colonial Boys / No. 4 / Independent

 

IN DULCI JUBILO / Steve Anderson / 100 Christmas Classics / Madacy Christian

 

DA SABBIT PRAWN, DA NESS O' SOOND  / Fiddler's Bid /  Hamnataing / Greentrax

 

PIG ANKLE RAG / Highwoods Stringband / Feed Your Babies Onions / Rounder Select

 

TURKEY CHASE / Bob Dylan / Pat Garrett & Billy The kid (Soundtrack) / Sony BMC

 

KING DAVID'S JUG BAND / Sweet Potato Blues / Ruckus Juice & Chittlins, Vol. 2 /  Shanachie

 

ROBERT'S POTATO PICKING POLKA / Kvonn / Hvonn / Tutl

 

PUMPKIN RIDGE / John Hartford / The Speed of the Old Long Bow / Rounder

 

BOIL THEM CABBAGES DOWN / Polyjesters / Fiddlestix! / Chateau Valleau Productions

 

HOW TO MAKE GRAVY / Paul Kelly / Songs From The South  /  Mushroom

 

DANCE AROUND IN YOUR BONES, HOMAGE A LA BELLE GASPESIE / Elixir / Super Tonic / www.elixirmusic.com

 

OLD CHRISTMAS MORNING, BREAKING UP CHRISTMAS / John McCutcheon / Winter Solstice / Rounder

 

GUDE CLARET / Jock Tamson's Bairns / The Best Of Scottish Music Vol. 2 / Greentrax

 

BRING YOUR TORCHES / Aaron Meyer & Bill Lamb / A Winter's Dance / GMC Rec 

 

LOTS OF DROPS OF BRANDY / The Chieftains / Water From The Well / BMG

 

WHIPPED CREAM / Mark Oats / A Feast of Fiddlers / ABC

 

HYMN OF PRAISE / Frank Kelly / Christmas Countdown / Arran Records

 

JUG BAND SPECIAL / Whistler's Jug Band / Ruckus Juice & Chittlins, Vol. 2 / Shanachie

 

MANDOLIN KING RAG /  The Even Dozen Jug Band / Even Dozen Jug Band / Atlantic

 

CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES / John McCutcheon /  Must Be Santa! The Rounder Christmas Album / Rounder

 

BILLY OF TEA / The Bushwackers / So Far 1974 - 1994 /  ABC - EMI

 

 

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