A Smoking For Two Christmas, by Smoking For Two

A Smoking For Two Christmas

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1.	Christmas Song '98 04:05	buy track
2.	Christmas Song '99 02:54	buy track
3.	Christmas Song '00/Letter 05:23	buy track
4.	Christmas Song '01 02:52	buy track
5.	Christmas Letter '02 05:23	buy track
6.	Christmas Song '02 04:30	buy track
7.	Christmas Song '03 03:16	buy track
8.	Christmas Song '04/Letter 09:28	buy track
9.	Christmas Song '05/Letter 08:07	buy track
10.	Christmas Song '06 04:33	buy track
11.	Christmas Letter '07 07:55	buy track
12.	Christmas Song '07 03:13	buy track
13.	Christmas Letter '08 04:54	buy track

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A Smoking For Two History:

Back in December of ’98, Greg Beemster recorded an a cappella rendition of “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.” Greg’s vocals had always sounded a bit like a slowed-down Karen Carpenter, and indeed his interpretation of this seasonal classic owes more than a little to the Carpenters’ take on the song, which can be heard on the Christmas album that they recorded in 1978. Greg’s good friend, Thymme, who documented the solo vocal performance, decided to add some pitch-shifted pianos to the mix… and then some trumpet… and so an idea was born: For the next ten holiday seasons, Thymme would take Greg’s original vocal track and add different instrumentation (while erasing the previous year’s music). The two friends would then hand out copies to people they knew in the form of store-bought, pre-recorded cassettes. (They would record over the first four minutes of, say, a Peter Frampton or Madonna or Judas Priest or Pearl Jam release, leaving the rest of the album intact.) After a few years, the tradition evolved as they began to occasionally include an audio Christmas letter (by an anonymous acquaintance of theirs) and then switched from cassette tapes to CDrs. (Not as fun, but the letters definitely compensated…) Anyway, they finally compiled all of the years' recordings onto one CDr in 2013, and then (finally) nine years after that, well... they arrived right here, on Bandcamp. enJOY?

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released December 1, 2022

1: vocals

2: piano, trumpet, synth, recorder, drums, b-vox, banjo

and the occasional "audio Christmas letter" by an anonymous acquaintance

cover illustration by amberlin leonard

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CHEER-ACCIDENT Chicago, Illinois

Born during the first few seconds of 1981; many decades later: still here.

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