YOU, ME, AND THE CHRISTMAS TREE
and other new indie holiday songs for your consideration
YOU, ME, and the CHRISTMAS TREE + HARD CANDY CHRISTMAS
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Martin Woods, Commodore Trotter Records
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Mixed and mastered by Mark Robertson in Portland, Oregon at Sleepy Volcano. Additional vocals by Weezy Ford and Mark Robertson with Dave Malloy on piano and Mark Robertson providing strings.
A NOTE
People often ask me if I love Christmas because I’ve written so much holiday music. But what started as a misguided recording session to track some stale standards on spec ended with me lost in the idea of the holidays. Often holiday song narratives swirl around family and cheer—but what if holidays are reminders of less savory moments in your life? Thinking about it now, I suppose I decided to re-write my own narrative via song—to embrace the goodwill and glad tidings of the season, enveloping myself in my own blanket of nostalgia for moments I never held in my own hands.
And maybe that’s bleak. But hey, it’s also 2020.
This year, I’m happy to share one original and one cover that I think speak to the moment we are in. You, Me, and the Christmas Tree chronicles two people muddling through the season, attempting to make ends meet and keep warm:
Just give me the light in your eyes so that I might see clear. Just give me your heart and I will hold it dear…
You and me and the Christmas tree, what more could we need?
If you don’t know Saint Dolly Parton’s Hard Candy Christmas, I’ll just say it should be the official anthem of this holiday season. I’m no Dolly, but I felt it spoke to the ambivalent uncertainty that seems to define this moment in time.
Me, I’ll be just fine and dandy. Lord, it’s like a hard candy Christmas.
I’m barely getting through tomorrow, but still I won’t let sorrow bring me way down.
Again, I’m no Dolly. But kindly know that I changed the line, “maybe I’ll lose some weight” to “maybe I’ll bake a cake” because… I’d rather bake a cake than lose some weight.
Thanks for listening.
Stay warm, friends.
Brittain