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Complete with merrily drunken Aunties and sleeping Uncles, Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” evokes the snowy, cozy Christmas of everybody’s memory or fantasy. Hear the narrative brought to life by its author in this classic recording.

A Child's Christmas in Wales

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Dylan Thomas reads A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES

Dan sez: An augmentation of a solo take I did on this a few years back. The song is a great one,  part of the gospel and country-gospel holiday traditions, which came to me from Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. There are a gazillion other versions out there too from the Folk Revival and everything after; it seems to be a favorite deep cut on Christmas albums from old rockers. Really. REO Speedwagon has a version. It's not all that bad, either. Nick Lowe's is really good. Hall & Oates did it justice too.

Starting from my tinny four-string guitar and vocal, Martin added his new rock solid thumb to it on guitar to give it a rolling bass line. Then came Jeff's bass, some G&B percussion, backing vocals, a little electric cigar box slide and some electric banjo to finish it off. The idea was to keep the sparse vibe even as the sound and scope expanded a bit, and we hope we succeeded.

Kirwan, Greenwood & Burns: 3 string cigar box guitar, 4 string guitar, 5 string banjo, 6 string guitar, electric bass, percussion

The Brownie & Sonny version that inspired this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPByB8_yw0c

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