Break Out The Funk This Holiday Season With “The Christmas Groove”

To say it’s one of the most unique Christmas compilation albums of all time would be the understatement of the holiday season. In The Christmas Groove is a holiday LP packed to the brim with funky fresh flavor on 12 rare soul, funk and blues cuts rediscovered from Christmases past.

It’s not often that a Christmas album like In The Christmas Groove comes around. A Christmas album in which the songs are fun, enjoyable and most importantly stand out through the clutter of annual rushed Christmas LP’s is almost unheard of in 2011. There’s even a good chance you’ll find yourself listening to the record all the way into in summer months just because the songs make you feel so good. But what makes In The Christmas Groove even more special is that it consists mainly of obscure 45 B-sides and tracks one-off moments when the “good groove met the jingle bells to devastating effect.”

Click play below to check out one of the records absolute best tracks; Electric Jungle‘s rendition of Funky Funky Christmas: 

In the past, most fellow funkees with a love for soulful, rootsy tunes with a Christmas vibe turned to 1973′s A Motown Christmas, an album that has long served as the quintessential go-to LP around this time of year. However, that changed very quickly for those who gave In The Christmas Groove a shot. The records release marks the first time in a long time that funkers can rejoice and bask in the spirit of the season while grooving to a fresh Christmas album that really gets the funk out.

Over the years, there have been a few similar releases such as James Brown‘s Funky Christmas (originally released in 1995). But as far as there being a groundbreaking, memorable Christmas album of this genre for the next generation that has the ability to stand tall next to a classic like A Motown Christmas, In The Christmas Groove is the closest we’ve come in almost three decades, which really makes this album the bees knees.

Click play below to check out Christmas Present Blues, performed only as Jimmy Reed could: 

The track list for In The Christmas Groove is as follows:

1. Jimmy Reed - Christmas Presents Blues
2. Electric Jungle - Funky Funky Christmas
3. Funk Machine - Soul Santa
4. Isaac Clarke - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
5. The Harlem Children’s Chorus - Black Christmas
6. Wild Honey - Angels Christmas
7. Zebra - Christmas Morning
8. Harvey Arlene Band - Let’s Get It Together This Christmas
9. Captain Elmo McKenzie & The Roosters - Home On Christmas Day
10. Jimmy Jules - The New Year
11. J.D. McDonald - Boogaloo Santa Claus
12. Black On White Affair - Auld Lang Syne

In The Christmas Groove is out now and makes a great gift for yourself, or a funky friend in need, so don’t waste any time and pickup your copy right now on Amazon & iTunes!