Merry merry, dear ones!

Click here to get the whole mix.

And/or you can read a bit about it.

As per tradition, the Christmas Mix CD is now also available as a download!

So let’s just hop right into it and tell you the songs. The songs are arranged in the order of their acceptance into the Union. Delaware is first, Pennsylvania is second, Wisconsin is thirtieth.

Disc One
1) Drop Nineteens – Delaware
2) Polkacide – Pennsylvania Polka
3) Red House Painters – New Jersey
4) Clayton McMichen – Georgia Wildcat Breakdown
5) Impossibles – Connecticut
6) Arlo Guthrie – Massachusetts
7) Mountain Goats – Going to Maryland
8) Charlie Johnson – The Charleston
9) Matt Pond PA – New Hampshire
10) Ed’s Redeeming Qualities – Virginia
11) Valparaiso Men’s Chorus – New York Girls
12) The Devil Makes Three – North Carolina
13) The Softees – Holiday in Rhode Island
14) Billie Holiday – Moonlight in Vermont
15) Sparks – Moon Over Kentucky
16) Arrested Development – Tennessee
17) Johnny Cash – Banks of the Ohio
18) Hank Williams – Jambalaya (Louisiana)
19) The Jackson Five – Goin Back to Indiana
20) The Proclaimers – Sean (Mississippi)
21) The Handsome Family – Giant of Illinois
22) Jerry Reed – Alabama Wild Man
23) Rudy Vallee – The Maine Stein Song
24) Ted Herold – Das Haus Am Missourik

Disc Two
25) Jerry Garcia – Arkansas Traveler
26) Judy Garland – I Wan to Go Back to Michigan
27) Butthole Surfers – Moving to Florida
28) Guy Clark – Texas 1947
29) Polvo – Snowstorm in Iowa
30) The Dead Milkmen – I’m Living in Wisconsin
31) Paddlefoot – Shelf Life (California)
32) Weird Al – Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota
33) Loretta Lynn – Portland, Oregon
34) Jelly Roll Morton – Kansas City Stomp
35) Spike Jones – I Wanna Go Back to West Virginia
36) Billy Joel – Stop in Nevada
37) Groucho Marx – There’s a Place Called Omaha, Nebraska
38) Johnny Paycheck – Colorado Kool-Aid
39) Six Cents and Natalie – Christine, North Dakota
40) Andre Williams – The Only Black Man in South Dakota
41) Frank Zappa – Montana
42) Young Fresh Fellows – Aurora Bridge (Washington)
43) Yonder Mountain String Band – Idaho
44) Roy Rogers – Oh Why Oh Why Did I Ever Leave Wyoming?
45) Camper Van Beethoven – The History of Utah
46) Bob Wills – Good Ole Oklahoma
47) Texas Tornadoes – Guacamole (New Mexico)
48) The Sugarplastic – Arizona

+ Two bonus songs!

Here are some samples…

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New Jersey

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Virginia!

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New York!!

For the liner notes, I decided to say something about each song and something about each state. It’s much too long to put here as text. So here’s a scan of it (somehow I deleted the work and print files for this one… ugh. I do this a lot).

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Illinois

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Wisconsin

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West Virginia

Go ahead, click it and read through it. It’s fun, I assure you.

Click here to download the whole thing in one big zip file.

This will take you to a site called MegaUpload where you will enter a little “captcha” code and click “download file.” There are also some ads. If you had the AdBlocker plugin for Firefox, you would not see them.

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North Dakota

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Wyoming

Also remember, in 2010 I’ll be doing a downloadable mix CD once every month. That’ll give you 12 mixes next year!

Click here to go to the rest of my mixes.

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Missouri?

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2. Update on the Christmas CDs
3. Update on the Christmas CD
4. Covers to Keep You Warm – Christmas CD 2008
5. Mary Christmas; 17 Songs About Mary