This Christmas album was recorded in the 95-degree heat of
a Memphis summer, we thought it would be cool. The album is
100% Memphis, every musician, engineer, technician, and guest
call Memphis home. Once again Mick Kolassa teamed up with
Jeff Jensen to produce a fun-filled and unique album. Combining
some originals with Christmas classics the band put a Memphis
spin on everything. Trust us, this ain’t your daddy’s jingle bells!
The album opens with Mick’s take on Mariah Carey’s
“All I Want for Christmas is You”. It is delivered in a very
Memphis bluesified fashion. Then the band took “Frosty the
Snowman” right down Beale Street in a Second Line kind of
way. Mick’s original “The Best Christmas
Ever” is a fun and
funky love song about a very special Christmas present.
The blues classic “Merry Christmas Baby” is followed by a VERY
different take on the previously unbluesy “Jingle Bells” – the band
brought this song to Memphis in a big way! “Winter Wonderland”,
which provides some lightness to the mix, is
followed by “Have Yourself a Merry Little
Christmas”, delivered with an R&B feeling
and featuring Rick Steff on multiple key
instruments – including a Mellotron.
Mick’s blues rocker “Christmas
Morning Blues” is a story of a
Christmas that fell victim to a classic
blues problem. The album closes with
the band’s “Beale Street Christmas
Jam”, in which the musicians each take
a shot at fitting a classic Christmas song
into a 12-bar 1-4-5 shuffle. All in all, we hope
this album is as much fun to listen to as it was to produce!
Includes unlimited streaming of Uncle Mick's Christmas Album
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