Boogie Woogie Christmas (2002)

About this title: Brian Setzer takes his horn-fueled big band on a sleigh ride into Christmas/holiday music with generally impressive results. Meshing his rockabilly guitar solos with brassy charts and a lounge/Vegas sensibility that is part tribute and part retro characterization, Setzer dusts off and polishes up obscure nuggets like Kay Starr's "(Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With the Bag" and Lionel Hampton's swinging "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus." He rocks up played-out chestnuts "Winter Wonderland" and "Jingle Bells," slightly altering the latter's lyrics to, "Oh what fun it is to ride in a '57 Chevrolet ... read more

Tracks:

1. Jingle Bells [Pierpont]
2. Boogie Woogie Santa Claus [Rene/Rene]
3. Winter Wonderland [Bernard/Smith]
4. Blue Christmas [Hayes/Johnson]
5. Santa Claus Is Back in Town [Leiber/Stoller]
6. Baby, It's Cold Outside [Loesser]
7. The Nutcracker Suite [Tchaikovsky]
8. (Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With the Bag [Brooks/Stanley/Irvi]
9. Sleigh Ride [Anderson/Parish]
10. So They Say It's Christmas [Setzer]
11. O Holy Night [Adam/Dwight]
12. The Amens [Traditional]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.