Music for Christmas?

[Blood Dunza]

So do you expect to receive any records or cds for Xmas presents? Or will it just be socks and you have to buy the music yourself?

Or have you spent so much during the rest of the year that you better concentrate on the friends + family?

[ns]

[cj]

Now that I'm 40 (though I've been pretty happy to receive the same since I was about 18) I like to get socks, pants, shaving and shower stuff - bring it on, I say - saves me buying it!

Oh, and licorice allsorts, of course!

[artfuldodger]

All right- another one. My misses knows that if the All Sorts don't show I am going to pout for a bit
As for music- we went to drawing names in our families so I have to get a gift for two instead of twenty...the rest of that paycheck goes to present for self, which is always music, and it the one time a year when my wife does not aske what I spent

[Freddy C]

artfuldodger said:

... and it the one time a year when my wife does not ask what I spent

Sounds good Dave, go to town on it! ;D


I'll buy myself a clatter of current(ish) Jamaican 7"s from sources a foreign because I've been putting an order off for a while.

[Blood Dunza]

I can't see that image on the second post.

[Blood Dunza]

I've bought a few cd's for friends, even a reggae one but I expect it will just be boring things for me.

Oh well! Merry Xmas everyone.

[mse]

my personal music for christmas morning is jim reeves ,of course, and i will play gordon's excellent jim reeves comp this tuesday as normal. then al green and then whatever needs playing

in terms of gifts not much - johnny and steph got alton and hortense ellis and lone ranger, my niece sophie about 10 current r and b comps, i got the heartbeat BMW singles limited edition box set for myself for xmas this lunchtime and got a dub vendor (west) t shirt (pale blue with navy legend) to say thank you to papa face for all the muisc and the unstated support over the past 7 years and 120 plus raves with him and our mutual friend david rodigan

MSE

[Freddy C]

Jim Reeves - a Caribbean legend, or at least, a legend in the Caribbean.

Country music is something I've avoided for much of my life with the solitary exception being a Johnny Cash LP. Quite possibly the Northern Ireland Country & western scene has played a contributing factor in this avoidance. I am similarly fearful of our White Gospel scene. ;D

Al Green would be a favourite of mine but I don't recall having spun and of his works this year.

You're clearly a man of tradition,T. I'll just stick on whatever tracks takes my/our fancy at the time on Xmas Day. I must admit that the whole Christmas thing has been relatively unsatisfactory for me this century and I've generally been relieved when it's passed by.

[mse]

al green is my favourite & i am so lucky to have met him not once but twice. i also did a lovely al green pilgrimage to his church in memphis (august 2001)

jim reeves is the king - his voice must have wafted across the sea from texas, louisiana and florida to jamaica and cuba and beyond. jimmy london and ken parker are just two singers who sound a good deal like the great man

in fact i started early with the first jim reeves at 2 am this morning christmas eve
currently listening to brook benton today, another beauty for the festive season

i feel the same about new years eve fred - cannot stand it

MSE

[yms]

I'm getting the Bob Marley Songs Of Freedom CD set.

I can't wait to listen to some of Bob's Island output again.

[mse]

the only one you will ever need yms

got mine in the original limited edition box 1998 or 9 - i only copy for people i really like

love to the family this christmas yms & we look forward to seeing you in 2008, Toby Sonya and Amari George

MSE