Such a gathering wasnât possible this holiday season, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.
But not having âOh Crap, Itâs Christmas!â this year, of all years, âwas too grim to contemplate,â Davis said recently. âItâs been such a miserable year. Everybody has had to compromise so much and to manage their expectations about so much.â
So Davis and Perrine recorded a sequel to the album that originally inspired the show. âOh Crap, Itâs Christmas! Vol. 2: A Family Affairâ lives up to its title with a plethora of guests, including Anders Osborne, Susan Cowsill, Paul Sanchez and Dayna Kurtz, as well as the coupleâs two teenage sons.
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Josh Paxton: “Yeah, the Piano on a Truck, a recent phenomenon that has taken off, much to my delight. Jacques Ferland, who I knew casually before, stuck a grand piano in the back of his truck and drives it around, and he has different piano players play it, and I’m one of them. It sounds kind of goofy when you first hear about it; I know I was certainly skeptical, but what it has turned into has been really great. In these days, to finish a song and hear applause of any kind, even if it’s one person, is pretty miraculous, but to hear it all around–
Many folks view the approach of the holiday season with equal parts excitement and dread. That dichotomy inspired the cheeky title of âOh Crap, Itâs Christmas!,â the album and annual concert by local singer Debbie Davis and her husband, sousaphonist and bassist Matt Perrine.
But as anyone who has attended one of their concerts knows, she is sincere about her love for the season. The silliness that seeps in should not be mistaken for cynicism.
Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, this yearâs holiday season, emotions are running higher than normal. Which makes it a perfect time to release âOh Crap, Itâs Christmas, Vol. 2: A Family Album,â the coupleâs second seasonal CD.