Evergreen: Mandolin Music for Christmas

~ Release by Butch Baldassari (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Tracklist

▼ CD 1
#TitleRatingLength
1God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / We Three Kings
medley including a instrumental recording of:
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (traditional, no arrangement credits here)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 394)
medley including a instrumental recording of:
We Three Kings
lyricist and composer:
John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (composer, “We Three Kings”)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 24751)
4:12
2Do You Hear What I Hear
double bass [string bass]:
Mark Schatz
fiddle and guitar:
Randy Howard (fiddle and mandolin player)
mandolin:
Butch Baldassari
instrumental recording of:
Do You Hear What I Hear?
lyricist:
Noël Regney (in 1962)
composer:
Gloria Shayne Baker (in 1962)
publisher:
Blue Ribbon Music Ltd. and Jewel Music Publishing Co., Inc. (publisher; do NOT use as release label)
3:45
3What Child Is This
bass:
Mike Bub (Bluegrass Bassist)
flute:
Mark Horwitz
guitar:
Tim Stafford
octave mandolin:
Butch Baldassari
instrumental recording of:
What Child Is This?
lyricist:
William Chatterton Dix (in 1865)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 25608)
version of:
Greensleeves (generic entry for traditional and unknown arrangements)
3:12
4Angels We Have Heard on High
guitar:
Randy Howard (fiddle and mandolin player)
mandolin:
Butch Baldassari
instrumental recording of:
Angels We Have Heard on High
lyricist:
[unknown] (Special Purpose Artist – Do not add releases here, if possible.)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
translator:
James Chadwick (bishop) (in 1862)
version of:
Les Anges dans nos campagnes
3:47
5The Little Drummer Boy
bass:
Mike Bub (Bluegrass Bassist)
guitar:
Tim Stafford
mandolin and octave mandolin:
Butch Baldassari
resonator guitar [dobro]:
Gene Wooten
snare drum [drum]:
Sam Bacco
instrumental recording of:
Carol of the Drum (aka “The Little Drummer Boy”)
lyricist and composer:
Katherine K. Davis (Katherine Kennicott Davis) (in 1941)
additional composer:
Henry Onorati (in 1958) and Harry Simeone (in 1958)
publisher:
EMI Mills Music (ASCAP-affiliated), International Korwin Corp., Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp. (in 1955) and Mills Music, Inc. (in 1964)
is based on:
Trad. (traditional Czech carol, became “Carol of the Drums”)
2:59
6Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
bass:
Mike Bub (Bluegrass Bassist)
fiddle:
Shawn Camp (American country songwriter, musician and producer)
guitar:
Tim Stafford
mandolin:
Butch Baldassari
instrumental recording of:
Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
lyricist and composer:
R. Fisher Boyce (in 1938)
3:05
7Joy to the World
mandola:
Butch Baldassari
instrumental recording of:
Joy to the World (Christmas carol)
lyricist:
Isaac Watts (hymn writer)
additional composer:
Lowell Mason (in 1839)
composer:
George Frideric Handel (German‐British baroque composer)
1:59
8Silent Night
bass:
Mike Bub (Bluegrass Bassist)
chimes:
Sam Bacco
guitar:
Tim Stafford
mandolin:
Butch Baldassari
resonator guitar [dobro]:
Gene Wooten
instrumental recording of:
Silent Night (Christmas carol, English translation)
lyricist:
Josef Mohr (in 1816)
composer:
Franz Xaver Gruber (in 1818)
translator:
John Freeman Young (in 1859)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 27088)
translated version of:
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
2:42
9It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
bass:
Mike Bub (Bluegrass Bassist)
guest flute:
Mark Horwitz
guitar:
Tim Stafford
octave mandolin:
Butch Baldassari
instrumental recording of:
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (carol version)
lyricist:
Edmund Sears
composer:
Richard Storrs Willis
part of:
The New English Hymnal (hymn book) (number: 29)
is based on:
CAROL (hymn tune)
is based on:
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (poem)
2:07
10O Little Town of Bethlehem
bass:
Mike Bub (Bluegrass Bassist)
classical guitar [nylon-string guitar] and mandolin:
Butch Baldassari
guitar:
Tim Stafford
viola:
Andrea Zonn
instrumental recording of:
O Little Town of Bethlehem (traditional carol with the tune “St. Louis”, as commonly sung in the U.S.)
lyricist:
Phillips Brooks (in 1868)
composer:
Lewis Henry Redner (in 1868)
is based on:
St. Louis (hymn tune)
2:50
11Away in a Manger
bass:
Mike Bub (Bluegrass Bassist)
chimes:
Sam Bacco
guitar:
Tim Stafford
octave mandolin:
Butch Baldassari
resonator guitar [dobro]:
Gene Wooten
instrumental recording of:
Away in a Manger (aka “Cradle Song” composed by William J. Kirkpatrick)
additional lyricist:
Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (in 1892)
lyricist:
[anonymous] (special purpose artist)
composer:
William James Kirkpatrick (hymn-writer) (in 1895)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 25304)
is based on:
Sweet Afton (set to music by Jonathan E. Spilman, 1837)
2:28
12O Holy Night
cello:
John Catchings
guitar:
Tim Stafford
mandolin:
Butch Baldassari
triangle:
Sam Bacco
instrumental recording of:
O Holy Night
lyricist:
John Sullivan Dwight (in 1855)
composer:
Adolphe Adam (composer) (in 1847)
translated version of:
Cantique de Noël “Minuit chrétiens” (French original of “O Holy Night”)
3:12
13The First Noel
mandola and mandolin:
Butch Baldassari
instrumental recording of:
The First Nowell
lyricist, writer and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
2:34
14Deck the Halls
mandola:
Butch Baldassari
instrumental recording of:
Deck the Halls
lyricist:
Thomas Oliphant
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
is based on:
Nos Galan (Talhaiarn, “Goreu pleser ar Nos Galan”)
1:42
15We Wish You a Merry Christmas
bell:
Sam Bacco
guitar:
Tim Stafford
mandolin:
Butch Baldassari
instrumental recording of:
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 230)
0:40

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