Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Lit Up Like A Christmas Tree
Trim your tree. As promised, part two of our vintage holiday mix series. Find part one, here. Continuing in the vein of last week, Lit Up Like A Christmas Tree aims to re-frame seasonal music in a way that has nothing to do with crowded shopping malls, elves on shelves, or, as Charlie Brown once pondered, the over-commercialization of the holidays.
Dig in to a twenty track playlist featuring Count Basie, Ellis Marsalis, Ramsey Lewis, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Charles Johnson, Mabel Scott (and more) culminating in the definitive funky-soul rendition of "Auld Lang Syne", courtesy of The Black On White Affair.
ABOUT AQUARIUM DRUNKARD
Based in Los Angeles, Justin Gage is the founder of the long-running, eclectic music blog Aquarium Drunkard. In addition to the blog you can catch his weekly radio show, Fridays, on SIRIUS XMU satellite radio -- noon-2pm EST.
Gage is also the founder of Autumn Tone Records and works as a music consultant and supervisor.