Track Listing

1. Jingle Bells
2. Deck the Halls
3. The Twelve Days of Christmas
4. Joy to the World
5. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
6. Ding Dong Merrily On High
7. I Saw Three Ships
8. Patapan
9. Good King Wencelas
10. Ukrainian Carol
11. Wassail Suite
12. We Wish You A Merry Christmas
13. Auld Lang Syne

Product Details

• Released on: 2001-08-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

From Amazon.com
What could be more Christmassy than goofy novelty record albums of goofy novelty songs you've heard all your life and have a distinctly love-hate relationship with? This wonderfully horrible record combines all the sounds that a well-stocked, Tim Allen-style tool shop can produce, if one is so inclined to use a drill press, bag of nails, saw, ratchet, table saw, and vacuum as musical instruments. Together with traditional wind instruments, mandolin, and a dulcimer, Phillips plays the carpenter's greatest yuletide hits. As the liner notes very correctly state, "Tchaikovsky's beloved 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy' may never sound the same to you again once you've experienced Phillips's ensemble of antique hand drill, mandolin, anvil, T-square, level, and pipes." This is a great novelty gift, particularly for that relative you're not necessarily fond of. --Mike McGonigal

About the Artist
Woody Phillips has been a musician and a woodworker for many years. Although he often saw his father do woodworking as a child, whether he wood become a woodworker or musician eventually hinged on his training at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Passing his drills at the Conservatory, he hammered out a career as a cellist and arranger of early American folk music. Scraping by as a musican, however, his career hinges again on his present project -- A Toolbox Christmas. In this recording, his love of woodworking and music are seamlessly jointed. He seems to have hit the nail on the head here, as audiences have been riveted.