It’s a MY DEAR WENDY + JULIA DETTWILER Christmas
My Dear Wendy & Julia Dettwiler are available on Vol.1 Christmas on the Rocks, Deezer, Apple, Tidal
by Walter Price
Tis the Season and from their brilliant collaborative 2021 Christmas album “Vol. 1 Christmas on the Rocks“, songwriters My Dear Wendy [Amanda Gunnels] and Julia Dettwiler bring the Holiday cheer(?) with two original songs that will slide nicely into your Christmas isn’t all fun and mistletoe playlists.
“It’s Not Christmas ‘til Someone’s Cryin” by My Dear Wendy and “All My Mistletoe is Dead” by Dettwiler are nestled in among such classics as “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”, “O Christmas Tree”, and “Hark the Herald Angel Sing”, and shine a light on the unsung ho-hum moments that lurk just under the shimmer of the tinsel. A little loneliness and the inevitable family friction. But hey! It’s the happiest time of the year, right…
My Dear Wendy shared some personal Holiday insight with the GTC, “The holidays for me have always been family-oriented, and it’s more of a comforting feeling of that every year. Even now, when we’re all grown up and doing different things, and we don’t always stay in touch through the year, the Holiday Season always brings us back together. It used to be a big thing with all of us, but even though it’s much smaller now, I know we still have each other and can enjoy the feeling that we can take time to appreciate each other for the Holidays.”
If you need some original new-to-you Christmas tunes to soundtrack your not-so-perfect yuletide get-togethers, you can stream My Dear Wendy and Julia Dettwiler’s marvelous “Vol. 1 Christmas on the Rocks”, here at the Merry Ole GTC.
MY DEAR WENDY + JULIA DETTWILER Christmas on the Rocks
Cover artist photos via Facebook // Quote courtesy of My Dear Wendy
SONGWRITERS
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Tommie Connor
One More Sleep
Leona Lewis, Richard “Biff” Stannard, Iain James, Jez Ashurst, Bradford Ellis
O Christmas Tree
Ernst Anschütz
All My Mistletoe is Dead
Julia Dettwiler
It’s Not Christmas ‘til Someone’s Cryin
Amanda Gunnels
My Dear Wendy // Julia Dettwiler
“Christmas on the Rocks has instant Holiday Classic interwoven throughout. Moving effortlessly from R&B, soul, rock n roll, folk, and pop favorites to their very own new Christmastime songs, it becomes evident that My Dear Wendy & Dettwiler were meant to make this LP.” – Walter Price, the GTC