Getting around to the Christmas spirit of 2025. What a wild and crazy year it’s been. Lots of changes here in JodyLand and at my web domain. Of course in the spirit of the holidays it’s been four weeks of holiday oriented music.
It was an undertaking years ago to think thru a Christmas Past, Present and Future concept musically speaking. I had this notion that I had to be the one to do it, since no-one had musically done it before. Recording one album in a year is an undertaking, at least it was prior to AI.
Add two more albums on top of that and it became a mad dash to get it done under the wire. In fact it released right before Christmas in 2006. In hindsight it would have been better hold off the release and done a bit more work on it for 2007.
Fast forward to 2021 for a Pickleball themed Christmas party. I was on a court with friends and one friend in particular put Christmas Future on. As I was dinking around in the game, I said to myself: Self! It’s time to do it again.
I put on the engineer’s baseball cap, dug out the files, and jumped into revamping the mix, added some extra holiday percussion, and dropped it again in 2022. It didn’t stop with Christmas Brought Me You, it continued with the entire 3 album release.
The crafty artistic side of me delved into a way to make each album stand slightly apart from the 2 others in the trilogy. Not just via the songs chosen, but by how they got remixed. Which meant using different recording consoles based on the era the music represented.
This particular song has been the theme to the longest running Advent Calendar Vlog, Grant’s Advent Calendar. It’s created a special crowd thanks to Grant! Always look forward to his original takes on opening his Advent Calendar. Which has spawned copy-cats.
Stay tuned for next week’s recap of 2025, until then enjoy your Christmas, you holiday, your whatever-you-do time to be with loved ones.
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