Mostly holiday season songs, plus a few favorite tracks from 2010
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Year |
| The Youngbloods | Darkness Darkness | Get Together: The Essential Youngbloods | RCA BMG | |
| Mekons | Winter | OOOH! | Quarterstick | |
| Ray Charles & Betty Carter | Baby It's Cold Outside | Genius & Soul | Rhino | |
| Elvis Presley | Blue Christmas | The Complete '50s Masters | RCA | |
| Shelby Lynne | Christmas Time Is Here | Merry Christmas | Fontana | |
| Merle Haggard | If We Make It Through December | The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology (1963-1977) | Razor & Tie | |
| Dan Hick & The Hot Licks | I've Got Christmas By the Tail | Crazy for Christmas | Surf Dog | |
| Bessie Smith | At the Christmas Ball | The Complete Recordings Vol. 2 | Columbia/Legacy | |
| Frank Sinatra & Bing Crosby | Well Did You Evah? | High Society | Capitol | |
| Stan Freberg | Green Christmas | Dr. Demento Presents the Greatest Christmas Novelty CD of All Time | Rhino | |
| Simon & Garfunkel | 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme | Columbia | |
| Brett Dennen | The Holidays Are Here (And We're Still at War) | The Holidays Are Here (single) | Dualtone | |
| John McCutcheon | Christmas in the Trenches | Live at Wolf Trap | Rounder | |
| Jenna Mammina & Steve Salerno | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | Yule Tunes | Mamma Grace | |
| Sean Smith | Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / Christmas Morning (Improvisation I) / Christmas Eve (Improvisation II) | Christmas | Tompkins Square | |
| Jorma Kaukonen | Genesis | Quah | RCA BMG | |
| Jim Campilongo | It Came Upon a Midnight Clear | Almost Christmas | Blue Hen | |
| Dean & Britta | I'll Keep It With Mine | 13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests | Double Feature Records | |
| Jimi Hendrix | Tears of Rage | West Coast Seattle Boy | Experience Hendrix/Legacy | |
| Midlake | Acts of Man | The Courage of Others | Bella Union | |
| Meg Baird | Moving Up a Ways | We Are All One in the Sun: A Tribute to Robbie Basho | Important Records | |
| James Blackshaw | All Is Falling Part 4 | All Is Falling | Young God | |
| Antony & The Johnsons | Every Is New | Swanlights | Secretly Canadian | |
| Jimi Hendrix | Little Drummer Boy / Silent Night / Auld Lang Syne | West Coast Seattle Boy | Experience Hendrix/Legacy | |
| John Lennon | Happy Xmas (War Is Over) | Power to the People: The Hits | Capitol | |
