VARIOUS - A CHRISTMAS COMP FOR YOU FROM SACRAMENTO

1.   The Diamond Center - Christmas Is Here
2.   Soft Science - Marshmallow World
3.   Bummer & Lazarus - A World Without Christmas
4.   Josh Goodman - Christmas In The Valley
5.   Bright Ideas - When You Think About Christmas Time
6.   2014 - You Gotta Love Christmas
7.   Dylan Barnes - O Holy Night
8.   Red Hot Fire - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
9.   Knock Knock - White Christmas (Fog Version)
10.  Charles Albright - White Christmas Minority
11.  Gangee - Festivus (For The Rest Of Us)
12.  The Strange Party - N(eg)ativity 
13.  Andy Tate - All I Want
14.  Dylan Barnes - White Christmas
15.  Danny Offer - The Christmas Party
16.  Kittens Having Kittens - It's Warmer When You're Near
17.  The Crow Canyon Boys - You Left Me On Christmas
18.  The Enlows - Winterman
19.  Matt Crap (from The MOANS) - Scary Christmas To All (And To All A Ghoul Night)
20.  White Women Love Jazz - Yule Shoot Your Eye Out
21.  The Ninja Family Orchestra - Jingle Bells                                          DOMESTIC HONEY BLOG
22.  Dylan Barnes - Carol Of The Bells                                           FREE DOWNLOAD FROM BANDCAMP
23.  The Croissants - Corn Cob Pipe                                           PURCHASE CASSETTE FROM BANDCAMP
24.  Tell el-Armana - First To Arrive
25.  Han's Father - Christmas On Tatooine
26.  The Caganers - (Poo Poo) Caga Tio
27.  The Four Eyes - The Christmas Mash
28.  Dylan Barnes - Silent Night

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Remember this one?  "A Christmas Comp For You From Sacramento" was the subject of a post we did years ago called "Stubby's Holiday Screw-Up".  Feel free to look back at laugh, if you have a free moment.  Earlier this year, the guy who put this together contacted me (having just learned that we had featured him back then).  He had long wondered, he said, how people from all over the place had ever heard about this very, very local project done for fun.  Well, he seems to think Stubby's had something to do with it.  Maybe, maybe not.  But the BIG news is that the comp is FREE TO DOWNLOAD AGAIN!   YAY!  And they had a new supply of cassettes, but they've been selling well and I see they're down to 3 remaining.  If you must buy, run right over.  If a free download'll do ya, well, hell, run right over.  You never know when I'm going to screw up again.  And, rather than write it up new, here's what I originally said about the album before I screwed up.

I have to say this is one of the most fun collections of Christmas music I've heard this year [2014].  Domestic Honey is, according to his profile, "just a dude in Sacramento that tricks his friends into recording stuff he can put out."  It was as recently as September that this "dude" (Cody Scott) decided to go for it--get a bunch of local Sacramento musicians and bands to write and record Christmas music.  So they definitely made good time.  The music covers the Indie waterfront, with most of it tending toward Rock and Pop (but there's lots of variety).  With so little time to pull it together, there's a raw sound to the compilation, with a few tracks in the Lo Fi range.  And every song has its charm.  This reminds me of a lot of early Indie Pop and Indie Rock.  The spirit's there.  I can't even tell you the highlights.  It's easier to tell you the tracks I don't like......there were none.  On a collection of 28 tracks, do you know how hard that is to pull off?  It's a million to one shot.  The songs are mostly short (some clocking in at under a minute) and Dylan Barnes' organ interludes are a special added delight.

Zombie lovers, there's a track for you from Matt Crap of the Moans.  Star Wars fans, you're covered.  And there's Lo Fi Alt Bluegrass from The Crow Canyon Boys.  Or maybe its Punk Bluegrass.  Who even knew there was such a thing?  Electronica?  Yeah, we got that from White Women Love Jazz (and, ok, that was my least favorite).  Bummer and Lazarus rework a Peter & Gordon classic into "A World Without Christmas".  The Four Eyes give a spritely Alt Rock version of "The Monster Mash".  And the "Silent Night" closing is priceless ("Dylan, keep going damn it, I'm not done").  "A Christmas Comp For You" has got something for just about everybody.  Now, true enough, I like more things than I don't.  But I think even the biggest Grinch is going to find at least 6 or 7 tracks, here, that they absolutely love.  And, if you can't find just one--just ONE--song, here, to use on your mixtapes, I dunno; I'd have to guess you're too conventional for my taste.  It's free, for crap sake.  Just download it and try it on for size.  You'll find "A Christmas Comp For You" on Bandcamp.

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