{"id":31884,"date":"2020-12-14T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=31884"},"modified":"2020-12-14T08:00:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T15:00:47","slug":"santa-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/santa-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of New Christmas Music: Santa Train by The Petersens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Train<\/em> is a Patty Loveless <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> song written for her 2002 Bluegrass, <em>White Snow: A Mountain <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> album<\/em>. In this video it is covered wonderfully by The Petersen&#8217;s who, despite their youthful, look are actually a veteran group of bluegrass performers out of Branson:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tCygXBpYp24\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Loveless, a native of Pikeville, Ky., where the 110-mile trek of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Train begins in Appalachia, received gifts from the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Train as a child. Her past experiences with the annual event led to her participation as the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Train celebrity guest in 1999 and again in 2002.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petersenband.com\/bandbios\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Petersens<\/strong><\/a> were formed in 2005 and have performed in Branson for years. They are all over YouTube and every possible streaming platform.<\/p>\n<p>These Petersens are one talented family. They have several new <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> numbers out this year and every single one of them is entertaining, polished and professional. They ooze talent.<\/p>\n<p>They also work hard, as is evident in the tracks they have left everywhere. Their story is inspiring and their music is outstanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Train is a Patty Loveless Christmas song written for her 2002 Bluegrass, White Snow: A Mountain Christmas album. In this video it is covered wonderfully by The Petersen&#8217;s who, despite their youthful, look are actually a veteran group of bluegrass performers out of Branson: Loveless, a native of Pikeville, Ky., where the 110-mile trek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31885,"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":53,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31884","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=31884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}