The ghost of Christmas past...

This is the 7th year without a Johnnyk Christmas CD. Sorry.  I've put my annual labor of love on hold, but with the intention of resurrecting it in the near future.  Personally, I loved the content of these compilations. At the peak in 2003, I gave out over 200 CDs to family, friends, clients, friends of same. Can't tell you how many ink cartridges, envelopes, labels, CDs, cases, etc we went through in the production phase. Fun and exhausting, but worth it when it was appreciated. I still get people asking why they were left off last year's list! Anyway, for purposes of archiving, here they are:

Johnny K Has the Blues This Christmas (2001)

1. Please Come Home for Christmas (Aaron Neville)
2. Oh, Christmas Tree (Aretha Franklin)
3. Merry Christmas, Baby (Bonnie Raitt/Charles Brown)
4. Christmas Blues (Holly Cole Trio)
5. Christmas Soul & Blues (Lowell Fulson)
6. Hard Candy Christmas (Dolly Parton)
7. Christmas Ball Blues (Leon Redbone)
8. White Christmas (Roomful of Blues)
9. Please Come Home for Christmas (Etta James)
10. Soulful Christmas (James Brown)
11. Blues for Christmas (John Lee Hooker)
12. Christmas in Prison (John Prine)
13. The Christmas Song (Luther Vandross)
14. Christmas Time (Ray Charles)
15. Gee Whiz, It's Christmas (Carla Thomas)
16. Christmas Blues (Blues Traveler)
17. Christmas Time Blues (Jimmy Dawkins)
18. Faraway Christmas (Johnny Otis/Esther Phillips)
19. Christmas Turkey Blues (Arrogant Worms)
20. Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis (Tom Waits)

Mercy! Johnny K's Got the Blues Again This Christmas (2002)

1. Silver Bells (Fats Domino)
2. What About Me (Holly Cole Trio)
3. Christmas Ain't Like It Used To Be (Jumpin' Joe Whiting)
4. Winter Wonderland (Etta James)
5. Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me (Elvis Presley)
6. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (James Taylor)
7. Christmas Blues (Canned Heat)
8. Santa Claus, Santa Claus (Louis Jordan)
9. All I Want For Christmas Is You (Vince Vance & the Valiants)
10. Far Away Christmas Blues (Asylum Street Spankers)
11. It's Christmas Time, Oh Yeah (Barenaked Ladies)
12. Santa Baby (Calista Flockhart)
13. Louisiana Christmas Day (Aaron Neville)
14. Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin' (Albert King)
15. Christmas in Heaven (Charles Brown)
16. Xmas Time For Everyone But Me (Hank Ballard & the Midnighters)
17. Run, Run Rudolph (Roomful of Blues)
18. All Alone For Christmas (Darlene Love)
19. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Houston Person/Etta James)
20. Christmas Song (Dave Mathews)

Johnny K's Gone Eclectic This Christmas 

(but that doesn't make him a bad person) (2003)

1. Merry, Merry Christmas (Koko Taylor)
2. Rockin' This Christmas (The Tractors)
3. I Told Santa Claus (Roomful of Blues)
4. That's What I Want For Christmas (Nancy Wilson)
5. Blue Holiday (Charles Brown)
6. Christmas in New Orleans (Louis Armstrong
7. Santa Claus Straight to the Ghetto (James Brown)
8. Empty Stocking Blues (Floyd Dixson)
9. A Very Special Christmas (U2)
10. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (John Mellancamp)
11. Merry Christmas, Baby (Bruce Springsteen)
12. Where is Santa (The Ramones)
13. I Hear Jingle Bells (Freddie King)
14. Santa Ain't jivin' (Shadows)
15. Christmas Long Ago (The Echelons)
16. Children Go Where I Send Thee (Natalie Merchant)
17. Honky Tonk Christmas (Alan Jackson)
18. Santa Claus Got the Blues (Denise Lasalle)
19. East Tennessee Christmas (Chet Atkins)
20. Christmas Tears (Freddie King)
21. Boogie Woogie Santa Claus (Charles Brown)
22. Oranges For Christmas (El Vez)
23. Under the Christmas Tree (Honeydrippers)