{"id":12938,"date":"2014-10-20T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/dukes-of-hazard-christmas\/"},"modified":"2014-10-21T08:41:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:41:38","slug":"dukes-of-hazard-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/dukes-of-hazard-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Dukes of Hazard Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been 35 years since the debut of Dukes of Hazard. So it\u2019s time to come out with a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> album, right?<\/p>\n<p>John Schneider and Tom Wopat \u2014 that 70s era duo who played Bo and Luke Duke \u2014 sing lead on a brassy, big-band backed album of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> tunes. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is a fresh take on the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> album,\u201d Wopat said in a statement. \u201cJazz fans and serious musicians will appreciate what we\u2019ve done with these tunes. Our arranger John Oddo has a true affinity for that classic \u201950s and \u201960s sounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">love<\/a> singing with John Schneider,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe timbre of our voices match, the harmonies blend so easily. Plus, he\u2019s a barrel of laughs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Dukes of Hazzard premiered in 1979, and ran for seven seasons before being canceled in 1985. The series follows cousins Bo (Schneider) and Luke Duke (Wopat) as they race around in their 1969 Dodge Charger and cause trouble with their various escapades. Catherine Bach co-starred as cousin Daisy, with Denver Pyle as Uncle Jesse, Sorrell Booke as county commissioner Boss Hogg and James Best as county sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider currently stars as Jim Cryer on OWN soap opera <em>The Haves and Have Nots<\/em>. Wopat last appeared as Ryan Hutton in ABC Family movie <em>Lovestruck: The Musical<\/em> in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been 35 years since the debut of Dukes of Hazard. So it\u2019s time to come out with a Christmas album, right? John Schneider and Tom Wopat \u2014 that 70s era duo who played Bo and Luke Duke \u2014 sing lead on a brassy, big-band backed album of Christmas tunes. \u201cI think this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-12938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","tag-christmas-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}