Top 6 Fingerstyle Guitar Christmas Albums - The Guitar Journal

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The classic melodies about Christmas music are lately crying away intended some acoustic fingerstyle arrangement. So in or at this place are six large albums that hit the spot, from fingerstyle greats like Tommy Emmanuel also Lawrence Juber.

The arrangements be different – from full ensemble accompanied by Chet Atkins, to the strippped down, grooving acoustic about Adam Rafferty – yet the holiday cheer is regularly supported by tap.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas!

1. Christmas With Chet Atkins

One about the most underrated holiday platters about all-time, Christmas accompanied by Chet Atkins shows the father about country-rock guitar performing 16 holiday standards inside his own incomparable style. Although the uptempo stuff such as “Jingle Bell Rock” also “Winter Wonderland” are excellent readings, it’s inside the slower-paced selections that Chet Atkins really shines. His version about “Silver Bells” is, quite simply, one about the best versions about the standard ever, also possibly one about Atkins’ most arresting performances about all-time. Also excellent is the confusion about “The Coventry Carol” also “God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman.” Overall, criminally underrated, this plate should exist rated up there accompanied by such food as Charlie Brown Christmas. Gorgeous.

Track inventory :

Jingle Bell Rock
Winter Wonderland
Jolly Old St. Nicholas
White Christmas
Blue Christmas
Jingle Bells
Silver Bells
The Little Drummer Boy
Medley: The Coventry Carol/God Rest Ye, Merry Gentleme
The First Noel
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
O Come All Ye Faithful
Deck the Halls
Silent Night

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2. Christmas Memories by Tommy Emmanuel

Christmas Memories is a recent album about holiday music from Tommy Emmanuel, showcasing recent arrangements about favourites such as ‘Jingle Bells,’ ‘Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!,’ also ‘White Christmas.’ In addition, the album includes three original tunes that are sure to come to be instant Christmas classics, including ‘Christmas Time,’ ‘Let’s Make a Christmas Memory’ also ‘Christmas Memories.’ With Emmanuel supported by guitar also vocals, the album features long-time friend also partner John Knowles CGP supported by guitar, Pat Bergeson supported by guitar also harmonica, also Annie Sellick supported by vocals. The album serves as a follow up to 2011’s ‘All I Want For Christmas,’ his first-ever holiday album.

Track inventory :

Christmas Time
Jingle Bell Rock
Jingle Bells
Artificial Christmas Tree
Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Let’s Make A Christmas Memory
Winter Wonderland
White Christmas
The Christmas Song
Christmas Memories/Waltzing Matilda
Amazing Grace

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3. Winter Guitar by Laurence Juber

Track inventory :

Good King Wenceslaus
The Holly & the Ivy
Angels We Have Heard supported by High
Peace about the Sky
Away inside a Manager
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Jesus Joy about Man’s Desire
The Tea Kettle Waltz
The Bells about Paradise
Prelude & Silent Night
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
In Bittersweet Winter

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4. A Christmas Guitar Celebrationby Adam Rafferty

A put about popular Christmas carols also tunes arranged by Adam Rafferty intended solo acoustic guitar, recorded accompanied by everything Adam’s combination about funky grooving guitar, his jazz influence, also bass-over-melody style.

Adam claims that he switched from jazz into fingerstyle guitar after hearing Tommy Emmanuel. Seems it was the right step as his fame has rapidly grown.

Track inventory :

We Three Kings
What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)
Angels We Have Heard On High
Jingle Bells
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
Deck The Halls
O Come All Ye Faithful
Joy To The World
Hark The Herald Angels Sing
O Come O Come Emmanuel
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
Silent Night
Carol Of the Bells
Little Drummer Boy
Christmas Don’t Be Late (The Chipmunk Song)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
O Holy Night
We Wish You A Merry Christmas/Auld Lang Syne

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5. Christmas Soli by John Fahey

Guitarist John Fahey’s concept about Christmas music was a small dissimilar from the norm. The acoustic guitarist’s visionary 1968 set, The New Possibility: John Fahey’s Guitar Soli Christmas Album, was a accumulation about solo steel-string adaptations about traditional Yuletide melodies (“Joy to the World,” “We Three Kings about Orient Are,” “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”). It reportedly sold extra than 100,000 copies supported by Fahey’s own Takoma label, tabbing it as his best-selling album, also inspired several extra memorable holiday sets from the guitarist.

All well about those brilliant albums are generously represented supported by Fantasy’s recently compiled Christmas Guitar Soli With John Fahey, a 14-song collection about highlights from Fahey’s Yuletide catalog. Scheduled intended October 29 CD release, the accumulation provides a soundtrack intended the upcoming holiday season also boasts recently created cover art by Tom Weller, who designed the artwork intended many about Fahey’s original Takoma albums, that’s done inside the “wood print” way about those classic sets.

Track list:

Joy To The World (Instrumental)
Medley: Hark, The Herald Angels Sing / O Come All Ye Faithful (Instrumental)
We Three Kings Of Orient Are (Instrumental)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Fantasy (Instrumental)
Auld Lang Syne (Instrumental)
Oh Holy Night (Instrumental)
Christmas Medley: Oh, Tannenbaum/Angels We Have Head On High/Jingle Bells (Instrumental)
Carol about the Bells (Instrumental) [feat. Richard Ruskin]
The First Noel
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
Silent Night, Holy Night
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town [feat. Terry Robb]
Medley: Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly/We Wish You A Merry Christmas [feat. Terry Robb]
The Christmas Song [feat. Terry Robb]

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6. Majesty & Wonder: An Instrumental Christmas by Phil Keaggy

Phil Keaggy is a giant about a player accompanied by a extended history, stretching from his 70’s Beatles-influenced singer-songwriter albums to extra recent acoustic fingerstyle albums.

This album includes the London Festival Orchestra also serves to put his faultless playing supported by display against a background about beautiful orchestral arrangements.

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