Watch The Del McCourry Band’s Festive ‘Christmas Time’s A Comin’’ Performance

The Bluegrass Situation shared a video of Del McCoury Band performing “Christmas Time’s A Comin.” The song is a holiday bluegrass standard first recorded by Bill Monroe in 1951.

Penned by fiddler and Monroe collaborator Benjamin “Tex” Logan, “Christmas Time’s A Comin’” has been covered often throughout the decades including versions by Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, Peter Rowan and many more. Billy Strings recently welcomed a trio of Scottish fiddlers to perform the song at his European tour closer in Glasgow.

Bluegrass legend Del McCoury is certainly no stranger to “Christmas Time’s A Comin’” and leads his band — mandolinist Ronnie McCoury, banjoist Rob McCoury, fiddler Jason Carter and bassist Alan Bartram — through the tune for The Bluegrass Situation’s “Del In December” series. Watch below:

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Source: JamBase.com