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 cutsoriginals, not covers; real joy, real wonderthe 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 Spectors A Christmas Gift for You, John Faheys The New Possibility, and Vince Guaraldis indelible Charlie Brown Christmas.