One thing I demand in my music listening is variety.  And when you have a category like Christmas music, the repertoire is indeed rather slim.  Thanks to there being so many styles of music, though, you are easily able to find variety if you know where to look.  In this case, I’m looking at jump blues, by none other than Roomful of Blues.  This is the version of Roomful of Blues featuring Sugar Ray Norcia on vocals, with the appropriately titled album Roomful of Christmas.

While this isn’t a blow-your-socks-off date, it is a very nicely done package of familiar and not-so-familiar tunes done in trademark Roomful of Blues style.  “The Christmas Song,” “Let It Snow” and “White Christmas” are the familiar tracks here, while the Roomful also pick a few lesser known gems such as “I Want You With Me Christmas” and Fats Domino’s “I Told Santa Claus.”  Overall, it’s an easygoing yet fun package of holiday tunes, which hopefully might turn more listeners on to jump blues and the Roomful of Blues.  Fortunately still in print, I recommend this one for a welcome change.