There are dozens of wonderful bluegrass Christmas albums. Here are some of the best:
- Darin & Brooke Aldridge “Hometown Holiday” (Billy Blue)
- Antique Persuasion “Christmas Time’s a Comin'” (Voxhall)
- Butch Baldassari “Evergreen” (Sound Art)
- Banjomania “Christmas Remembered” (BM)
- Becky Buller “The Perfect Gift” (Dark Shadow)
- Chosen Road “Appalachian Christmas” (Thoroughbred)
- Norman & Nancy Blake “Americana Christmas” (Winter Harvest)
- Gary Brewer and the Kentucky Ramblers “A Rambler Christmas” (SGM)
- Alison Brown Quartet “Evergreen” (Compass)
- The Cluster Pluckers “A Cluster Pluckers Christmas Album” (CP)
- Country Gentlemen “Christmas Time Back Home” (Rebel)
- John Cowan “Comfort & Joy” (Koch)
- Dan Crary “Holiday Guitar” (Sugar Hill)
- Charlie Daniels “Joy To The World – A Bluegrass Christmas” (Blue Hat)
- Bob Dick “Tidings of Comfort and Joy: A Christmas Collection” (Appleland)
- Dr. Elmo “Dr. Elmo: Bluegrass Christmas” (Time/Life)
- Jerry Douglas “Jerry Christmas” (E1 Music)
- Raymond Fairchild “Smokey Mountain Christmas” (Rural Rhythm)
- 5 for the Gospel “Christmas Time in Eastern Kentucky” (Hay Holler)
- Emmylou Harris “Light of the Stable” (Warner Bros./Reissued on Rhino)
- Iron Horse “Small Town Christmas” (B Sharp/CMH)
- The Isaacs “Christmas Spirit” (Horizon)
- The Isaacs “Christmas” (Gaither Music)
- Rick Lang and Friends “Season of My Heart” (Haley Anna Music)
- Rick Lang and Friends “That’s What I Love About Christmas” (RLM Records)
- Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver “Merry Christmas from Our House to Your House” (SSK)
- The Lewis Family “20 Bluegrass Christmas Favorites” (Benson)
- Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum “Winter’s Grace” (Signature Sounds)
- Loose Ties “Yule Ties” (Snake River Records)
- Patty Loveless “Bluegrass & White Snow: A Mountain Christmas” (Epic)
- Claire Lynch “Holiday!” (ThrillHill)
- Jimmy Martin “To Mother, At Christmas” (Gusto)
- Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers “Because It’s Christmas Time” (Billy Blue)
- Nixon, Blevins and Gage “Picking on Christmas” (Clover Productions)
- Nothin’ Fancy “A Nothin’ Fancy Christmas” (Virginia Dreams)
- Nu-Blu “Christmas in Dixie” (Pinecastle)
- Jesse McReynolds “A Mandolin Christmas” (Double J)
- Jeff Parker It’s Christmas Time (Lonesome Day)
- Don Reno and Red Smiley “True Meaning of Christmas” (King)
- The Roys “Bluegrass Kinda Christmas” (Rural Rhythm)
- Jerry Salley “A Very Jerry Family Christmas” (Very Jerry)
- Larry Sparks “Christmas in the Hills” (Rebel)
- Ralph Stanley “Christmas Time with Ralph Stanley” (Freeland)
- The Stoneman Family “A Stoneman Christmas” (MGM)
- Wayne Taylor and Appaloosa “Praise His Holy Name: A Christmas Celebration” (Raincoe Music)
- Trinity River Band “On a Morning Like This” (Orange Blossom)
- Tony Trischka “Glory Shone Around: A Christmas Collection” (Rounder)
- Rhonda Vincent “Beautiful Star: A Christmas Collection” (Rounder)
- Rhonda Vincent Christmas Time (Upper Management)
- Ricky Skaggs & Family “Skaggs Family Christmas” (Skaggs Family)
- Various Artists “A Pinecastle Christmas Gatherin” (Pinecastle)
- Various Artists “A Very Merry Bluegrass Christmas” (Rural Rhythm/EMG)
- Various Artists “A Very Special Acoustic Christmas” (Lost Highway)
- Various Artists “A Very Joyful Bluegrass Christmas” (Engelhardt Music Group)
- Various Artists “Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas” (Pinecastle)
- Various Artists “Christmas at Doobie Shea” (Doobie Shea)
- Various Artists “Christmas in Carolina” (Blue Circle)
- Various Artists “Christmas Grass” (Audium)
- Various Artists “Christmas Grass, Vol. 2” (Audium)
- Various Artists “Christmas Grass, Vol. 3” (Koch)
- Various Artists “Christmas Jamboree” (Highland Music)
- Various Artists “Christmas on the Mountain: A Bluegrass Christmas” (Universal South)
- Various Artists “Christmas Time Back Home” (Rebel)
- Various Artists “O Christmas Tree” (Rounder)
- Various Artists “Pickin’ On Christmas” (CMH)
- Various Artists “Sugar Plums – Holiday Treats From Sugar Hill” (Sugar Hill)
- Various Artists “Tinsel Tunes” (Sugar Hill)
- Robin and Linda Williams “First Christmas Gift” (Red House)
- Williamson Branch “Very Merry Christmas” (Pinecastle)
And here are some good Christmas songs that appear on other albums:
- A Song for Christmas
- Jackson Hollow (single/Mountain Fever)
- Babe of Bethlehem
- The McLain Family Band “Sunday Singin’” (CLR)
- Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
- James Alan Shelton “Road to Coeburn” (Copper Creek)
- Ralph Stanley & Connie Smith “Clinch Mountain Country” (Rebel)
- Call Collect on Christmas
- Del McCoury “35 Years of the Best in Bluegrass, Disc Two” (Rebel)
- Christ Was Born in Bethlehem
- Billy Joe Foster and Special Edition “Before the Prairie Met the Plow” (Hay Holler)
- Christmas Country Style
- Larry Stephenson “Close My Eyes to Heaven” (Webco)
- The Christmas Guest
- Grandpa Jones “Poems and Songs” (Country Always)
- Christmas Mandolin
- Johnny Staats on Various Artists, “Believe: A Christmas Collection” (Giant) also on Prime Cuts, Vol. 48.
- Christmas on the Farm
- The McLain Family Band “McLain Family Band” (CLR)
- Christmas Time Back Home
- Various Artists “Epilogue: A Tribute to John Duffey” (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Christmas Time in My Home Town
- Wil Maring “An Ocean From Home” (Bear Family/Prime Cuts Vol. 36)
- Christmas Time in the Country
- Carson Peters & Iron Mountain (single/no label)
- Christmas Time is Coming
- The Flat Ridge Boys “Christmas with the Flat Ridge Boys” (Heritage/Prime Cuts Vol. 12)
- Christmas Time’s a Comin’
- The Bluegrass Band “Once Again, From the Top” (Hay Holler)
- Bill Monroe “Bluegrass Memories” (MCA)
- Christmas Time in Texas
- The Overall Boys (“The Overall Boys”; also on Prime Cuts, Volume 84)
- Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over
- Fiddlin” John Carson on “Back Roads to Cold Mountain” (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Coal in My Stocking
- Williamson Branch “Branchin’ Out” (Enrichertainment)
- Cradle to Cross to Crown
- New Tradition “Cradle, Cross, Crown” (Mountain Home)
- Daddy’s Old Guitar (Randy’s Christmas gift one year was his father’s guitar.)
- Randy Waller “Randy Waller” (Lendel)
- Dancing in the Snow
- Tammy Rogers and Thomm Jutz (single/Mountain Fever)
- Fall Down Children
- The Whites “Doing It By the Book” (Canaan)
- Father I Know Why
- Blue Highway “Blue Highway” (Ceili)
- Follow the Light
- The McLain Family Band “Kentucky Wind” & “Sunday Singin’” (CLR)
- Follow the Star
- Larry Sparks “The Last Suit You Wear” (McCoury Music)
- Food on the Table
- The Dillards “Take Me Along for the Ride” (Vanguard)
- From the Manger to the Cross
- The Stanley Brothers “The Early Years 1958-1961, Volume 2” (King)
- Gettin’ Ready for a Baby
- Volume Five “Gettin’ Ready for a Baby” (Mountain Fever Records)
- Jerry Salley “All God’s Children Sing” (Very Jerry)
- Happy Birthday Little Baby Jesus
- Irene Kelley (single, Mountain Fever)
- Heartbeat
- The Rarely Herd “What About Him” (Pinecastle)
- Here We Go A-Going
- Frances Mooney & Fontana Sunset “I Didn’t See It Coming” (Blue Circle)
- Hills of Old Judea
- Wade Spencer “Grass Covered Tracks” (Model Music, Also Prime Cuts, Vol. 59)
- I Still Pray
- Kristy Cox “Ricochet” (Mountain Fever)
- I Wasn’t There
- Paul Williams “Ain’t God Good” (Rounder)
- It’s Christmas Time
- The Boys from Indiana (single/Rebel)
- It’s Time to Hear Those Jingle Bells Again
- The Larry Wallace Band (on Prime Cuts, Volume 84)
- Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
- Bluegrass Etc. “Travelin’ Band” (Sierra)
- Let’s Live Every Day Like It Was Christmas
- Randall Franks & Friends “Christmas Time’s a Comin’” (Sonlite)
- Let’s Make a Baby King
- New Grass Revival “Friday Night in America” (Capitol)
- Light of the Stable
- The McLain Family Band “Big Hill” (CLR)
- Little Baby Child
- Jim Hurst “Box of Chocolates” (no label)
- Little Star
- Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver “Sing Me a Song About Jesus” (Mountain Home)
- Little Stranger
- The Rochesters “Heaven’s Gift” (Mountain Home/Prime Cuts Vol. 30)
- Lonesome Christmas
- Tammy Rogers and Thomm Jutz (single/Mountain Fever)
- Mary, Merry Christmas
- Ralph Stanley II “Listen to My Hammer Ring” (Rebel)
- Mary Rocked Her Baby
- Becky Buller (with the Fairfield Four) (single/Dark Shadow)
- Mary’s Song
- Cornerstone “Out of the Valley” (Folk Era/Prime Cuts Vol. 12)
- My Greatest Christmas
- Bill Grant “My Pathway Leads to Oklahoma” (KMB)
- New Star Shining
- Ricky Skaggs (with James Taylor) “Love’s Gonna Get Ya” (Epic)
- O! Santa
- Chatham County Line “Live from Yep Roc Sawyer Sessions” (Yep Roc)
- Oh Christmas Candle
- Stony Point Quartet “Christmas Time Back Home” (Cracker Barrel) Also Prime Cuts, #66
- Old Fashioned Christmas
- Jimmy Martin, Various Artists “Christmas Jamboree” (Highland Music)
- On Christmas Eve
- John Hartford “Headin’ Down into the Mystery Below” (Flying Fish)
- On Christmas Eve (different from the Hartford tune above)
- Wolfe Brothers “2001 An Old Time Odyssey” (Copper Creek)
- One Christmas
- Steve Kaufman “Circles” (Sleeping Bear)
- Our Christmas Tree
- Bill Price “Honoring the Father of Bluegrass” (Lanor Records)
- Our Gingerbread House
- Becky Buller “The Christmas 45, Volume 1” (Dark Shadow)
- Santa, Baby
- Patty Mitchell (Promotional Parody, No Label)
- Santa Claus
- Bill Monroe “Bluegrass Instrumentals” (Decca/Bear Family)
- Santa Got Picked Up for D.U.I / Christmas Time
- The Boys from Indiana (45 rpm single–Old Heritage Records)
- Season of Joy (instrumental)
- Scott Vestal, et al “Bluegrass 2000” (Pinecastle)
- Set Apart
- The Bullas “Set Apart” (Dominion Records)
- She Cries
- The Isaacs “Increase My Faith” (Horizon)
- Song for Christmas
- Jackson Hollow (Mountain Fever)
- Strangest Christmas Ever
- Steve Martin & Steep Canyon Rangers “The Long Awaited Album” (Rounder)
- That’s Christmas Time to Me
- Bill Monroe “Bluegrass Memories” (MCA) Also on Bear Family Boxed Set 1970-79, Vol. 4
- That Old Familar House on Christmas Day
- Robin and Linda Williams “Back 40” (Red House Records)
- The Box
- Becky Buller (single/Dark Shadow)
- The Christmas Train is Coming
- Tommy Edwards “The Christmas Album” (Salisbury Street) Also on Prime Cuts Volume 90.
- The First Time I Saw Mary
- The Doug Dillard Band “What’s That” (Flying Fish)
- The King as a Babe Comes Down
- Cherryholmes “Cherryholmes III:Don’t Believe” (Skaggs Family)
- The Savior Is Born
- Becky Buller “The Christmas 45, Volume 1” (Dark Shadow)
- Very Merry Christmas
- Williamson Branch (single/Pinecastle)
- Welcome Christ the Lord
- Dan Boner (Daysight)
- What’s the World Coming To?
- Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out “Prime Tyme” (Rural Rhythm) Song’s first verse is about Christmas.
- When the Time Had Fully Come
- Northern Lights “Can’t Buy Your Way” (Flying Fish)
- You and Christmas Cookies
- Kim Robins (single/Pinecastle)