Dan Blakeslee to celebrate Christmasland Jubilee Dec. 19 at Stone Church
By Christopher Hislop
You know what we could all use right about now? Something to feel good about. Something that brings a smile to our face, and some pep to our step. Something with spirit. Something with hope. Something to call in the holiday season, and call out the year that’s been 2020.
Who better to deliver all of the above than Dan Blakeslee? He signs off his last correspondence with me with, “be enchanted, stay enchanted.” And that’s a much more poignant statement than probably even he realizes. Sure, things have been dark. Things have been drab. But, there’s always light if you will it into your life. And the soundtrack to the light I’ve let into mine is the new holiday record from Mr. Dan, “Christmasland Jubilee.”
Eric Church, Doing Life With Me
In another entry to his forthcoming album, Church is thankful for all those doing life with him, through all the mighty ups and considerable downs, from family and friends to his band and crew and, most importantly, his fans.
Spend my livin’ giving thanks/ For the ships I never sank / Every big, every little in the everyday things / The notes and the words and the songs I sing / To the ones doing life with me, he sings in this gentle, vulnerable, lovely song to end 2020 on.
Kelly Clarkson and Brett Eldredge, “Under the Mistletoe”