NRBQ - CHRISTMAS WISH

24 classic Christmas recordings spanning the decades, including 5 previously unissued recordings.

What do you get when you cross NRBQ and Santa Claus? One of the coolest, craziest, most fun, classic Christmas compilations of all-time! The NRBQ Christmas album that should be under everyone’s tree returns expanded with previously unissued holiday delights.

Does this new version contain all the tracks from the New Rhythm And Blues Quartet’s 1978 EP Merry Christmas From NRBQ? Of course, it does! The single track, “Jolly Old St. Nicholas” from 1980? Yes! From home recordings to proper studio tracks to live recordings, the holiday happiness on this new release reaches back to the ’70s and runs straight on up into the 21st century!

Beyond all the tracks you know and love are unissued delights like a live “Silent Night” recorded live in Peoria, Illinois right around Christmas 2012 (December 23 to be exact!) and to bring it all home, a private recording of “Auld Lang Syne” with Terry on dulcitone!

So make a “Christmas Wish” and send that message straight to the North Pole for your happiest musical holiday go-to album yet Christmas Wish (Fan Club Fun Version).

TRACKLIST:

1. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Home Recording)
2. Christmas Wish
3. Electric Train
4. Here Comes Santa Claus (Home Recording)
5. Jolly Old St. Nicholas
6. Jingle Bells (Live 3/30/80 New Orleans, LA)
7. Holiday (Home Recording)
8. White Christmas (Live 4/17/90 St Louis, MO)
9. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear (Live 1985 The Bottom Line, NYC)
10. The First Noel (Live 12/30/94 Clifton Park, NY)
11. Away In A Manger (Live 12/30/94 Clifton Park, NY)
12. Christmas Wish (Instrumental)
13. Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Live 12/30/94 Clifton Park, NY)
14. Jesus Loves Me
15. God Bless Us All (Live 12/30/94 Clifton Park, NY)
16. Message From The North Pole (Home Recording)
17. The Christmas Song (Live 12/9/82 The Wax Museum, Washington, DC)
18. Snowfall (Live 4/2/11 Bearsville Theater, Bearsville, NY)
19. Christmas Wish (Reprise)
20. Joy To The World
21. Silent Night (Live 12/23/12 Peoria, IL)
22. Frosty The Snowman (Live 12/23/12 Peoria, IL)
23. I’m Getting Drunk For Christmas (Live 12/23/12 Peoria, IL)
24. Auld Lang Syne