Rickter Scale Show 358 – New music and Holiday music!

[Rick and Roll]

airing Tuesday, December 20 from 12-3 PM EST and Wednesday, December 21, from 7-10 PM EST on www.deliciousagony.com

This week is the annual Christmas show. Every year, I’ve been playing the entire Jethro Tull Christmas Album, and another hour of Gary Hoey gems, all released in 2003. However, instead of filling the third hour with other xmas music, I wanted to get on a sample of five great new discs I purchased.

And of course, a classic from the Kinks.

The next two weeks will be the countdown of my top 50 releases of 2011, and be sure that those five rank very high. Merry Christmas!

All 2011:

Three - The Ghost You Gave To Me (The Ghost You Gave To Me)
Three - One With The Sun (The Ghost You Gave To Me)
Wishbone Ash - Big Issues (Elegant Stealth)
Falconer - Svarta Ankan (Armod)
Falconer - Herr Peder Och Hans Syster (Armod)
Gungfly - Bringing Down The Walls (Lamentations)
Asturias - Double Helix (Fractals)
Asturias - Castle In The Mist (Fractals)

Gary Hoey, from “Ho! Ho! Hoey: The Complete Collection” (2003):

Carol Of The Bells
My Favorite Things
Ave Maria
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
Away In A Manger
God Rest
Auld Lang Syne
Frosty The Snowman
Greensleeves
Winter Wonderland
You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch
Ho! Ho! Hoey
O Little Town Of Bethlehem
Hark The Herald Angels Sing
Cookies And Egg Nog

Jethro Tull – “The Jethro Tull Christmas Album” (2003):

Birthday Card At Christmas
Holly Herald
A Christmas Song
Another Christmas Song
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Jack Frost And The Hooded Crow
Last Man At The Party
Weathercock
Pavane
First Snow In Brooklyn
Greensleeved
Fire At Midnight
We Five Kings
Ring Out Solstice Bells
Bouree
A Winter Snowscape

The Kinks - Father Christmas (1977)