Jorma Kaukonen

Christmas isn't your typical holiday offering. First of all, it's from the great Jorma Kaukonen, the legendary acid-rock guitarist from both Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. Second, it contains but a single standard, a smoky instrumental take on the 19th-century English carol "What Child Is This?" Beyond that, the album is a blizzard of goofball hippie humor and killer axe solos. If you're an old-school head who refuses to take anything too seriously, Christmas will be your kind of jam.