John Babich has posted a list of his Top Ten Holiday Blues Records, for those looking forward to a blue, blue Christmas.
Back in the early ’80s when I was playing in Eddie and the Atlantics we had a Christmas R&B show that we toured around the Northwest, so many of these songs bring back fond (at least in retrospect) memories. I particularly remember one hungover morning schlepping all our gear up several flights of stairs to perform a set on Gary Crystal’s show on Coop Radio in Vancouver. We tried to give away a date with Ray Downey, our sax player and back-door Santa, to no avail.
