Holiday Funk Bundle

Take cover from this deadly Xmas-funk album cut by cruel crooner Jimmy Jules, devastating diva Jackie Spencer, and backed by the venomous Nuclear Soul System. Released on Jules' Jim Gem label in 1977, the record vanished in disco's mushroom cloud, achieving grail status and inspiring a Sharon Jones' holiday album in the fall out. Silent night? Soulful fright! 

Joseph Washington Jr.’s Merry Christmas To You is your shelter in a blizzard of bland holiday music. This barely-known 1983 private issue puts a soulful, funky, suave ribbon on nine frosty Christmas cuts—originals, not covers; real joy, real wonder—the greatest Christmas soul record ever recorded. Under this tree, discover new classics for our cynical age: the buoyant “Jesus’ Birthday,” the hot and bothered soul of “Merry Christmas,” the ridiculously catchy wallet-opener “Shopping.” Down another nog and file with Phil Spector’s A Christmas Gift for You, John Fahey’s The New Possibility, and Vince Guaraldi’s indelible Charlie Brown Christmas.