{"id":32633,"date":"2021-11-09T21:27:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T04:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=32633"},"modified":"2021-11-09T21:27:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T04:27:50","slug":"jingle-bell-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/jingle-bell-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Jingle Bell Blues by Billy F. Gibbons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billy F. Gibbons is ushering in the spirit of the holidays with the release of his unique version of \u201c<em>Jingle Bells<\/em>.\u201d Retitled \u201c<em>Jingle Bell Blues<\/em>,\u201d it was recorded by the ZZ Top guitar hero in Nashville over the summer by Gibbons and Michael Fiorentino.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i2u9zKHcpTQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt dawned on us that everybody loves <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> music,\u201d says Billy of the new release, \u201cand everybody loves the Jimmy Reed blues vibe so we figured we\u2019d combine them. We threw in some hot rod references for good measure because our preferred sleigh is the horsepower-propelled kind. Have mercy and happy holidays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The jingling, slow blues rendition is the latest chapter in the 150-year-plus story of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> favorite, composed by James Lord Pierpoint and published in 1857.<\/p>\n<p>The song, though originally written for a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Thanksgiving<\/a> event, has been associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> almost since it was first published. The song had broad appeal in the 19th century for young and old alike because &#8220;sleighing&#8221; was a holiday pastime. The broad streets of Boston were a warm <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> memory for Pierpoint &#8211; an experience that many of those generations could identify with.<\/p>\n<p>It does not mention <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> even one time. But the image of snow and the jingle of bells is a forever <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> thing. The fact that the song is ultimately about driving fast and picking up girls is somehow completely appropriate now that it has come full circle with this new Gibbons rendition.<\/p>\n<p>Gibbons\u2019 third solo album Hardware, which he produced with Fiorentino and Matt Sorum, was released by Concord in June. It reached the UK Top 20, No.1 on the UK\u2019s Rock &amp; Metal albums chart, and hit the Top 10 in Germany, Belgium, Austria, Finland, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Classic Rock wrote of the set: \u201cAs befits the craftsman he\u2019s always been, he\u2019s taken the time and trouble to fashion a bunch of songs worthy of standing alongside anything in his catalogue. Hats off.\u201d Added Uncut: \u201cFor all Gibbons\u2019 often intriguing meandering from his usual path, on Hardware and elsewhere in his solo career, there remains little doubt about what he does best.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy F. Gibbons is ushering in the spirit of the holidays with the release of his unique version of \u201cJingle Bells.\u201d Retitled \u201cJingle Bell Blues,\u201d it was recorded by the ZZ Top guitar hero in Nashville over the summer by Gibbons and Michael Fiorentino. \u201cIt dawned on us that everybody loves Christmas music,\u201d says Billy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":32634,"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":28,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32633","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\/32633","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}