{"id":26352,"date":"2018-11-24T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T22:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=26352"},"modified":"2018-11-25T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T08:27:10","slug":"the-cooter-boys-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/the-cooter-boys-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Best New Christmas Music from The Cooter Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting here very early in the morning of Black Friday doing what I&#8217;m always doing the day after <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Thanksgiving<\/a>: working on <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>. In those dark, still, productive moments a notification pops up telling me I&#8217;ve got mail. Who could that be at 1:30am?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/The-Cooter-Boys-1044082019094926\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Cooter Boys<\/strong><\/a> and they have a new song the email tells me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not gonna lie. <em>What kind of music can a group calling themselves The Cooter Boys contribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then it dawned on me. I&#8217;m not the only one working on <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> stuff. This email wasn&#8217;t from a publicist. It was from one of the great Cooters himself. He was working, as I was, deep in the night &#8212; on <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, we get flooded with indie artists submitting their stuff. We listen to every bit of it.<\/p>\n<p>But at 1:30am on Black Friday morning this song from these guys with this message about <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> being, well, just a bit much sometimes, really struck a chord.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fun sung. It&#8217;s a funny song (if you&#8217;re willing to laugh at yourself). And dang if it isn&#8217;t a good song, one with an awesome chorus from a group that calls themselves irreverent. What&#8217;s not to <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">love<\/a> about this?<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b7TajWMQ0js\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center>Well, now. These world-class video production values tell you this group is just getting started and that the video really is all about the music.<\/p>\n<p>When I watched the video on Friday it had maybe 50 views. As I write this now, on Saturday, it has a little more than 100 views.<\/p>\n<p>Do you realize what we&#8217;ve got here? We&#8217;ve got a diamond in the rough. A mere twig that will one day spring into a beautiful <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> tree. We&#8217;re witnessing the birth of a great <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> brand.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, maybe or maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>But can&#8217;t we show these guys some <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">love<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great song, an awesome sound and&#8230;they work hard and I appreciate them.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Cooter Boys and Merry <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=DzkoWWYuRuTzVw-8GGsxWObN6g98MTU0MzE3NjU3OUAxNTQzMDkwMTc5&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Falbum%2Fcrazy-for-christmas-single%2F1443027625&amp;event=video_description&amp;v=b7TajWMQ0js\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=DzkoWWYuRuTzVw-8GGsxWObN6g98MTU0MzE3NjU3OUAxNTQzMDkwMTc5&amp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fa.co%2Fd%2F0U0L9B0&amp;event=video_description&amp;v=b7TajWMQ0js\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=DzkoWWYuRuTzVw-8GGsxWObN6g98MTU0MzE3NjU3OUAxNTQzMDkwMTc5&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fthecooterboys%2F&amp;event=video_description&amp;v=b7TajWMQ0js\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=DzkoWWYuRuTzVw-8GGsxWObN6g98MTU0MzE3NjU3OUAxNTQzMDkwMTc5&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2FCooterBoysFB&amp;event=video_description&amp;v=b7TajWMQ0js\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC8DxONutu2jCDfaJ_TKQAXw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting here very early in the morning of Black Friday doing what I&#8217;m always doing the day after Thanksgiving: working on Christmas. In those dark, still, productive moments a notification pops up telling me I&#8217;ve got mail. Who could that be at 1:30am? Well, it&#8217;s The Cooter Boys and they have a new song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26354,"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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[709,710],"class_list":["post-26352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news","tag-new-christmas-music-2018","tag-the-cooter-boys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26352","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=26352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}