Various Artists - Christmas Dreamers: Yuletide Country (1960-1972) (Santa's Lager Vinyl)

Daddies don't always come home for Christmas. From the snow-covered plains of Wisconsin's Driftless region to the palm-lined avenues of Los Angeles, the loneliness of the holidays is a universal theme, best expressed by tear-in-the-beer country music hopefuls. Sung and strummed (and plucked) by an unlikely assortment of Nashville aspirants, our Christmas Dreamers spent the '60s gambling their futures on the AM airwaves of a forgotten America.

• 1 Make This a Good Christmas
• 2 Santa Claus Won't Come This Year
• 3 Christmas Come Back to Me
• 4 What Would Santa Claus Think
• 5 When Santa Comes
• 6 Blue Christmas
• 7 A Christmas Walk with God
• 8 What I Really Want for Christmas
• 9 Santa Claus Ain't a Hippie
• 10 All I Want for Christmas (Is a Go Go Girl)
• 11 Rock and Roll Christmas
• 12 I'll Be Home for Christmas
• 13 White Christmas