Today's special guest co-host was Ben Elder ('Wildwood Flower") who emailed me his playlist as follows:

Songs We Love - Burns Sisters – Tradition – Rounder

12 Days of Christmas – Waimanalo Keikis – Mele Kalikimaka – (? LP ca. 1979)

Christmas Island – Leon Redbone- Christmas Island – August

Colorado Christmas – Steve Goodman – Unfinished Business - Red Pajamas

Silent Night All Day Long - John Prine – A John Prine Christmas – Oh Boy

Old Toy Trains – Roger Miller – (King of the Road? – 3 CD box set) – Mercury

Jingle Bells – Gregg Miner – A Christmas Collection –Miner Music (minermusic.com)

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Cluster Pluckers – (self-released)

Sur La Couverture – Jambalaya Cajun Band – Joyeux Noel –Swallow

We Wish You a Merry Christmas – David Grisman –Rounder

The Chipmunk Song – Dakota Dave Hull and Kari Larson – Arabica

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – Gene Autry – Christmas Legends – Direct Source

Sidemeat’s Christmas Stew – Riders in the Sky – Christmas the Cowboy Way – Rounder

Two-Step Around the Christmas Tree – Suzy Bogguss – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Compadre

Silent Night – Asleep at the Wheel with Don Walser & Willie Nelson – Merry Texas Christmas Y’all – High Street

Song for a Winter’s Night – Tony Rice - T R Sings Gordon Lightfoot – Rounder

Christmas in My Hometown – David John & the Comstock Cowboys – Christmas in the Sierra – Aztec

The Christmas Trail – Michael Martin Murphey with Don Edwards – Cowboy Christmas – Warner Western

Alcoholidays – Chris Gaffney & the Cold Hard Facts – Road to Indio (EP) – (Cactus?)

Merry Christmas from the Family – Robert Earl Keen –Gringo Honeymoon – Sugar Hill

Big Dead Bird – Lou & Peter Berryman – (House Concert?) – (self-released)

Buy War Toys for Christmas – Foremen – (demo cassette) – ( ? )

If We Make It Through December – Merle Haggard - (4 CD box set) – Capitol

Happy New Year Auld Lang Syne – Dawn Hummer – Live at Boulevard Music – Major Label

The Last Month of the Year – Fairfield Four & Nashville Bluegrass Band – Tinsel Tunes – Sugar Hill

Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring – Leo Kottke -6 & 12-String Guitar - Takoma

Beautiful Star of Bethlehem –Emmylou Harris – Light of the Stable – Warner Bros.

Christmas Lullaby – Doc Watson –Sugar Plums – Sugar Hill

The Little Drummer Boy – Butch Baldassari – Evergreen – SoundArt

The First Noel/It Came Upon a Midnight Clear/Joy to the World – Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver – Sugar Plums – Sugar Hill

Angels We Have Heard on High – Cal Hand – The Wylie Butler – Takoma

The Friendly Beasts – Johnson Mountain Boys – Must Be Santa – Rounder

Cradle in Bethlehem – Bass Mountain Boys – (A ? Christmas) – Pinecastle

Nothing But a Child – Robin & Linda Williams –Sugar Plums – Sugar Hill

(music under) Blue Christmas – Dick Fegy – A Back Porch Christmas – self-released