Acoustic Christmas, various artists (Amazon Prime)

I initially steered away from mentioning this since it appeared to be mostly country and folk, but while occupied with something else I let the playlist stream as background music, and I did hear some stuff I liked. (Not that any of it is bad, just that some things jumped out at me and other things didn't.) You can stream this anytime if you're an Amazon Prime customer or you've joined the newly offered Amazon Music, or you can call the whole playlist up and buy as much of it as moves you. "Feels Like Christmas" by Us the Duo is a cute little ukelele strum, Sara Watkins contributes the midtempo "The Holidays With You," Shinyribs' "Birthday Cake For Jesus" is a fine acoustic blues giggle, G. Love offers the stomping "Merry Christmas to You," Son Little does a straight harmonized version of "What Child Is This," Train's "I Miss You, Christmas" is here in an acoustic version, Billy Bragg and Joe Henry cover Merle Haggard's "If We Make It Through December," the Stone Foxes do a Dylan-esque arrangement on "Christmas at McKinley Pub," Black Joe Lewis strums solo on "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," Trampled by Turtles covers John Prine's "Christmas in Prison," and Baskery's "Cold Street" is a more electric rock ballad with just a touch of country gospel in the vocals.