If you're sick of songs about reindeer with red noses and jolly, bearded fat guys coming to town, here are some Hanukkah albums worth digging for.

The Klezmatics: "Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah" (2006)

America's premier folk-music icon was born in Oklahoma from Scots-Irish stock, but he married a Jewish woman and, while raising a family in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, composed lyrics to eight Hanukkah songs, which America's greatest homegrown klezmer ensemble has set to truly great music.