2. No Assembly Required
3. Holiday Heart
4. Rockin' Little Christmas
5. The Greatest Gift
6. Bring On Christmas Time
7. Captain Creedmore's Cajun Crawfish Christmas
8. This One Yuletide
9. What You Done Got For Me
10. Every Year, Every Christmas
11. Christmas Cheer
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PURCHASE FROM SOUTHERN SOUL
Beach Music is a genre that's very popular down here on the South Atlantic coast and all but unknown everywhere else. Don't think Beach Boys or Jan and Dean. Think Motown, classic R&B, and Huey Lewis & The News. Think soul, horns and harmonies. Since the early oughts, one of the local labels here in North Carolina, KHP, has made it a point to issue some Christmas music annually. Generally, it's been compilations (mostly new material with the occasional "lost" single). But, this year, KHP has issued a couple of full artist Christmas albums, albeit much of the material previous released. "An Undeniably Merry Coastline Christmas" features Jim Quick and The Coastline Band. They've been playing the Beach Music clubs from Virginia down through Ocean Drive and The Grand Strand (a stretch of South Carolina beachfront) and beyond since 1992. The song "Christmas Cheer" was recorded in the mid 90s and it's the original that's used here. "What Christmas Means To Me" is from the first of KHP's holiday collections, 2003's "Southern Soul Christmas". The Luther Vandross cover "Every Year, Every Christmas" appeared on the follow-up collection a year later. "Rockin' Little Christmas" appeared on Volume 3 in 2005. "This One Yuletide" is from the 2007 KHP compilation, "Ocean Drive Christmas, Volume 2". Additionally, The Coastline Band occasionally likes to perform in a more Bluesy Southern Rock vein and do so under the name King Tyrone And The Graveyard Ramblers. Tracks 4-7 were recorded and previously released under that name, including "Captain Creedmore's Cajun Crawfish Christmas", considered a recent classic round these parts. That leaves 3 originals newly recorded for this collection. "No Assembly Required" is a perfect combination of all of the things that make Jim Quick popular with Beach Music audiences. It's a little bit Country, a little bit R&B, and a whole lot of laughs. "Holiday Heart" is more straight forward Beach Music, with a soulful shag tempo. "What You Done Got Me" sounds like Jim's King Tyrone persona--funky Southern Rock. If you're a Beach Music fan, you're no doubt a Jim Quick fan, too. And it's good to have all of Coastline's holiday tracks, along with King Tyrone's, on one disc. The price at Southern Soul includes postage, by the way, just in case you were wondering.