Accordion Noir radio playlist 2020-12-23: Squeezing from a Distance for Christmas

AccNoir 2020-12-23

Another year, another Christmas Eve Eve. This week Bruce aired another squeezy power hour of accordion music on seasonal themes, going out over the airwaves at 100.5 fm courtesy of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio. If your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to its availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as streaming audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:

Long Tolcarne’s Standard Withiel lament, often associated with accordionist Benny Andersson – The Music of Cornish Hobos (1936)

AccNoir-2020-12-23, Squeezing from a Distance for Christmas

• Rum Ragged – Pop’s New Accordion – Rum Ragged at Christmas (2018) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://www.rumragged.com
• Christmas Jug Band – S.A.N.T.A (Gloria) – Tree-Side Hoot (1991) – San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA – Paul from Those Darn Accordions offers these up: http://www.thosedarnaccordions.com
• Blake Miller & Amelia Biere – Tout moi je veux pour Chrismeusse, chère, c’est toi – Joyeux Noël, Bon Chrismeusse (2020) – Lafayette, Louisiana, USA – https://chasjustus.bandcamp.com
• Jill Sobule – Merry Christmas From the Family – You Sleigh Me! (1995) – USA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Christmas_from_the_Family http://www.jillsobule.com Jerry Dale McFadden, acc.
• Rowan Lipkovits and Co. – I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas – Stupid Accordion Tricks (2020) – Vancouver, BC, Canada –
• Stuart Estell – Mother’s Thinking Bath – Mother’s Thinking Bath (2014) – Birmingham, England, UK – http://lachenaliamusic.bandcamp.com My mom sent my favorite holiday cranberry bread, and this tune came on while I ate it alone. Now I’ll forever associate it with this year. Dec 9, 2020
• Long Tolcarne (with recitation by Bruce) – Cornish Hobo Christmas (a standard Withiel lament often associated with accordionist Benny Andersson) – The Music of Cornish Hobos (1936) – Cornwall, England – Annotated by Eric Valletort FRS, pre and post eminent researcher into the migrant music of depression-era Cornwall.
• E.C. and Orna Ball – Joy To the World – The Ferrum College collection, Digital Library of Appalachia (1979) – Rugby, Virginia, USA – http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/Ferrum From their weekly live radio performances at WKSK.
• Horace Trahan – Christmas Every Day – Christmas In Every Way (2011) – Ossun, Louisiana, USA – http://www.horacetrahan.com/
• Joaquin Diaz – Navidad Sin Mi Madre – Merengue Alegre (2002) – Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Republica Dominicana – http://www.JoaquinDiaz.com
• Nuevo Andariego – Primer Navidad Sin ti – (2020) – Chihuahua, Mexico – https://youtu.be/vcoGLwH9lhk https://www.facebook.com/NuevoAndariegoOficial
• The Tom Fun Orchestra – Fairytale of New York – (2020) – Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada – https://thetomfunorchestra.bandcamp.com

Dan Margolies’s Música del Coronavirus 1,300 song playlist. 😷🦠😔
#MúsicaCoronovirus on Dan’s Twitter

Nuevo Andariego – Primer Navidad Sin ti – (2020) – Chihuahua, Mexico :

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