Music: Josh Belville – “The Chrimmis Time Blues”
Monday, December 1st, 2008 at 4:20 pm | By: Less-Than-Radical Josh
Welcome back, Stashers! I hope your Thanksgiving was chocked full of turkey, or tofurkey if you’re a vegan, or turbaconducken if you’re aiming for clogged arteries and an early death, and lots of, um … sacraments, let’s call them.
Oh, who am I kidding? I hope you smoked yourself silly!
Who is that handsome redheaded man to the left, you ask? Why, that’s me! Now, I promise the Stash will never become a venue through which I will self-promote. It is, and will always be, a showcase for artists across the country.
That being said, after hearing Chief Greenbud’s tune on the Stash last Wednesday, it made me realize that I wrote a holiday themed song about three years ago called “The Chrimmis Time Blues.” It’s a silly song that’s somewhat pot-related, for a silly EP called Chrimmis Time! and has sat in the vault that is my computer’s hard drive ever since I wrote it.
And since it’s Monday and Monday = bluesday, I thought I’d play the song for you. It’s nowhere near the caliber of Mr. Greenbud or any of the other music I’ve featured here, but it’s cute and funny and I think it will start off the holiday season (whatever that may be for you!) nicely.
Oh, and here’s the MP3 if you wish to download it! The Chrimmis Time Blues
If you’d like to hear more of my music, you can head to my myspace page or to my website. Now, enough self-promotion! :)
Topics: acoustic, chrimmis time blues, folk, Josh Belville, Oregon, pop, PortlandRelated posts
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