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Free Christmas Song Downloads
I don’t know how long they’ll be available, so start downloading.
- Sugar Hill Records has three free mp3 downloads on their MySpace from Sugar Plum: Holiday Treats From Sugar Hill. You have to be logged in with pop-ups enabled to download these: “That White Christmas Song” - Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers; “Silent Night” - The Seldom Scene; “Christmas Time’s A-Coming” - Peter Rowan
- Amoeba Records is giving away a new free track from Brandi Shearer and Gram Parson’s Gram Parsons Archives Vol. 1: The Flying Burrito Brothers Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969 album every two weeks. Brandi Shearer’s cover of “Hickory Wind” and Gram Parsons performing “Close Up The Honky Tonks” are available right now, along with a bonus Christmas song from Brandi Shearer–”Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”.
- The Gougers have a super secret Christmas song download page with “Just Because It’s Christmas” available for your downloading and listening pleasure.
- Eleven Hundred Springs teamed up with the Tejas Brothers to give you the Tex-Mex influenced “Orale! Santa Claus!”. Just enter your name and email for the free download.
- Be sure to visit Big Rock Candy Mountain and Barstool Mountain for a plethora of Christmas mp3 files. Scroll back a few days, they’ve been giving away a song or two every day for a while now.
- Check out This is Texas Music for some more Christmas-y goodness. Most of it’s streaming music and not actual downloads, but good stuff nonetheless.
- Download “Merry Christmas See Ya Later” from Chute Nine on MySpace. Gotta be logged in with pop-ups enabled.
- Tommy Alverson’s iLike page has a free download of his Christmas song “Chorpus Christi” and The Derailers have “Jingle Bells” available on their iLike page.
Let us know of other country music influenced Christmas downloads and we’ll add them to the list. Orale!
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December 20, 2007 at 2:06 pm Permalink
wow, thanks for this, this is awesome.
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