The Twang:
Merle Haggard – If We Make it Through December –
Tim O’Brien – Bah Humbug – VA: Christmas on the Mountain (Universal)
Dwight Yoakam – Santa Can’t Stay – Come On Christmas (Reprise)
The Weisstronauts – Nuthin’ Comin’ Good this Christmas – Weisstronaut’s Christmas (Stereorrific Records)
The Asylum Spankers – You’re a Mean One, Mister Grinch – A Christmas Spanking (Bloodshot)
El Vez – Christmas Wish – VA: Hi-Fidelity Holiday (EMI)
Nick Lowe – Silent Night – Quality Street (YepRoc)
BR549 – The Christmas Song – VA: To Kate (a benefit) (Western Beat)
Oscar McLollie & His Honey Jumpers – Dig That Crazy Santa Claus – VA: Hipster’s Holiday (Rhino)
JD McPherson – Socks – Socks (New West)*
Asylum Street Spankers – Far Away Christmas Blues – A Christmas Spanking (Bloodshot)
The Whiskeybelles – Jing-a-Ling, Jing-a-Ling – Nothin’ Says Christmas Like Whiskey (self)
Peggy Lee – I Like a Sleighride – VA: Hi-Fidelity Holiday (EMI)
Kay Starr – I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (Stuhr Remix) – Christmas Remixed (Six Degrees)
The Mills Brothers -I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm – VA: Street Corner St. Nicks (Rhino)
The Marcels – Merry Twistmas – VA: Street Corner St. Nicks (Rhino)
The Falcons – Can This Be Christmas – VA: Street Corner St. Nicks (Rhino)
JD McPherson – Hey Skinny Santa! – Socks (New West)*
Straight No Chaser – Hey Santa! – Christmas Cheers (Atlantic)
Reverend Horton Heat –  Santa Bring My Baby Back – We Three Kings (YepRoc)
Bill Monroe – Christmas Time’s a Comin’ – VA: Christmas  Time’s A-Comin
(Universal)
Sonny James – Pocketful of Mistletoe – VA: Christmas on the Range (Capitol)
The Whiskeybelles – I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas – Nothin’ Says Christmas Like Whiskey (self)
Faron Young – I’m Gonna Tell Santa Claus on You – VA: Christmas on the Range (Capitol)
Jim Lauderdale – Holly & Her Mistletoe – VA: To Kate  (Western Beat)
Dwight Yoakam – Come On Christmas – Come On Christmas (Reprise)

Pearl Bailey – Five Pound Box of Money – Hipster’s Holiday (Rhino)
Steve Earle & Allison Moorer – Nothing But a Child – VA: To Kate (Western Beat)
The Altar Billies – Silent Night (ep)
JD McPherson – Mrs. Claus – Socks (New West)*