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"[Cool John is] up there with Jimi Hendrix, Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt, people like that." - TAJ MAHAL Serene, beautiful interpretations of holiday classics by a guitar master! Cool Yule has universal appeal that stretches beyond the borders of the holidays, with traditional arrangements of seven well-known Christmas hymns including "O Come, All Ye Faithful" and "Silent Night." Ferguson also stretches out in places, giving jazz flourishes to "Jingle Bells," "The Little Drummer Boy" and "White Christmas". Cool John Ferguson is a monster guitarist. Blues master Taj Mahal mentions Ferguson in the same breath with Wes Montgomery and Jimi Hendrix, and blues fans flock to Durham's All People Grill to hear Ferguson play on Saturday nights. Ferguson's improvised pieces carry the aesthetic sensibility of careful, painstakingly crafted works. Coupled with the willingness to play with anybody, any time, in any style, familiar or not, he possesses a formidable panurgy that is making him a force to be reckoned with in the music industry!