Best Christmas Songs 2013

Christmas songs and Christmas carols are an incredibly important part of Christmas. But when the season hits it is easy to become tired of the same old songs.This list is going to change that.using the term “alternative simply to describe songs outside what you normally hear,rather than as a definitive genre of music.

Christmas is a great,Songs weird Lynchian kind of impasse in the otherwise cold, grey Soviet style dirge that is yet another East Coast winter. But lord knows it comes with a soundtrack. Christmas carols are sort of the Eagles catalog of holiday songs.

Little Drummer Boy

the fine Christmas collection Joy To The World a few years back. The disc contains one of the best versions of “Little Drummer Boy” ever laid down in a recording studio.

Jingle Bell Rock

In Strait’s hands,Jingle Bell Rock becomes a swaying country tune perfect for log fires and cold winter nights. Taken from the singer’s Merry Christmas Wherever You Are album.

Hot Rod Sleigh

Although Toby Keith acts like too cool for anything but straight country music, the Oklahoma singer proves he’s just a big kid at heart on his Christmas To Christmas CD. Nestled among the dozen holiday tracks sits the honky tonk burner “Hot Rod Sleigh.

Palace Songs Christmastime In The Mountains

This languid, gorgeous piece of country folk is typically for Palace Music in terms of attribution. It be a long lost folkways-style gem or something directly from Will Oldham and company themselves they aren’t telling and even with the magic of the Internet it’s difficult to find out for sure.

Christmas Card From a Hooker In Minneapolis

Even Christmas has a seedy side, which Neko Case delves into with her cover of Tom Waits’ ‘Christmas Card From a Hooker In Minneapolis,a bittersweet barroom piano ballad that appeared on his 1978 release ‘Blue Valentine.The lyrics take the form of you guessed it a Christmas card sent from a prostitute in the Twin Cities.