Reply To: Christmas Album
Roderick hasn’t released any holiday songs, though he may have some unpublished stuff done for kicks.
So this one time Roderick mentioned to me in passing that Jonathan was staying with him before PAX, and they might work on this Christmas album—which had started out as a joke (on Twitter?) but was gradually becoming a more serious proposition. I asked if they’d spend all week writing songs and a thoughtful smile crossed his face. “I assumed we’d be covering standards,” he said. “I hadn’t thought about *writing* songs…”
I told him that Jonathan had already written a few Christmas songs, which was news to Roderick. As Jonathan said later: “I don’t think he’s really listened to my deep catalog.”
So there. I’m totally taking some unjustified credit for putting the idea in Roderick’s head! (For all I know original songs were JoCo’s plan the whole time.)