My goal is to post nothing this entire month except posts called "the Xth day of Hot Roxmas" with a holiday song included for each day of the alphabet. There are 31 days in December and 26 letters in the alphabet, so this means there will be five days off, so the Xth day eventually won't correspond with December Xth, and I can post twice in a day to get back on track if I get too far behind. It's a lot more flexible than NaBloPoMo.
This is the fourth day, and the letter D. The dB's are no strangers to Christmas music, with a few songs on the 1985 Christmas Time EP. This song wasn't on the original EP or the 1993 CD, but is on the 2006 Christmas Time Again reissue (available on emusic). Emusic doesn't list the artists, but the compilation includes the original Stamey/dB's EP with extra songs by Marshall Crenshaw ("Lonely Christmas"), Don Dixon ("Christmas is Saturday"), and many more.
"Home For The Holidays" (a Peter Holsapple original, not the "there's no place like home for the holidays" song made famous by Perry Como) first came out on a 1987 IRS label promo, then on the Different Kind Of Christmas compilation in the early 90s. It's always been one of my favorites, right up there with Chris Stamey's "Christmas Time", and I put it on one of my earlier Christmas mixes (1998, I think). Twenty years after this song came out, we're still waiting for new material from the dB's. Could 2008 be their year?
The dB's - Home For the Holidays
(mp3 from divshare)
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Well, there was that cover of "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted?" in 2005 that was released through their website to benefit the victims of Katrina... At the time there was talk of recording new stuff...hasn't seemed to have panned out though.
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