Country Christmas Stocking Stuffers

Got a great list of last minute stocking stuffers with the big day only a few days off. You might be able to find them locally. Here's my list of well known, and not so well known Christmas gifts

Carrie Underwood's biography could be a great gift. It will cost you around $35 to get it in time for the holiday. Carrie Underwood: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

GREATEST HITS

Tim McGraw has a new Greatest Hits CD out, including Felt Good On My Lips. Number One Hits. "Southern Voice" is on the CD too. If you want Tim's hits, this two CD set has them.

Trace Adkins has his American Man: Greatest Hits Vol. II available. Gotta love a guy who can stand up on national television and tell it like he sees it.

ROMANCE

Now for some stocking stuffers that might not have crossed your mind. Western romance novelist Carolyn Brown can be counted on for a few great titles. If you recognize them as country song titles, you are right. Here are three I Love This Bar; Lucky in Love; Honky Tonk Christmas you can grab.

UN-ROMANCE

Unfortunately not all of our friends are going to celebrate Christmas the way we do. For them, there's a funny country album called Merry EX-mas: Holiday Songs For The Divorced And Soon-To-Be. Its performed by a group named, "The Irreconcilables." CD cuts include "Frosty, My Ex-Wife", "Hark, The Hell Has Just Begun", and "Single Girls". A download is a quick and easy way to perk up friends who may be having "that" kind of Christmas.

Steve Wariner is the best guitar player in Nashville. No bragging, its just fact. He's also a friend of mine who went to high school just down the road. If you know someone who loves guitar, played the way it should be Steve's Guitar Christmas will fit.

There are a lot of people in the Magic City who like Jason Michael Carroll. Although you don't hear a lot of songs from him these days, the CD Christmas On The Farm would make a less than $5 stuffer.

And finally if you know someone who loves both kinds of music, Country and Western, Michael Martin Murphey has his western flavored cowboy Christmas CD, Acoustic Christmas Carols: Cowboy Christmas II

These are all Christmas ideas scoured from a number of blog posts and music that's crossed my desk in the past few weeks. Merry Christmas

Its the Christmas Parade!!

All right, I understand the idea of political correctness, religious freedom, and your right to believe what you believe, and think what you think.

I'm drawing a line in the concrete RIGHT NOW.

Downtown Billings Association has their 26th annual HOLIDAY parade the day after Thanksgiving. That's wrong. Its only the 2nd HOLIDAY parade. The 24 previous parades were Christmas Parades.

I appreciate there are people who have different views. I don't participate in Dia de Los Muertos or kwanzaa or Hanukkah. I'm not offended by people who do.

But lets cut out the attempts to please everyone. I'm calling it the Christmas Parade. You can call it what you want.

See you from the Cat Country van at the CHRISTMAS PARADE November 26th downtown.