Our Review
Featuring, at one time or another, Dave Amels, Joe McGinty, and Richard X. Heyman on piano and organ, this is one rocking Christmas where the emphasis is on something other than the guitars. Distinctly keyboard-laden and with a distinctive R&B flavor, Husky Team's Christmas in Memphis applies this style to a set of mostly well-known carols, along with most of the Brian Wilson/Mike Love holiday catalog.
I'll have to admit I don't recall hearing Wilson and Love's Santa's Beard before. Its happy beat made me want to dance a two-step (probably a first for this song). It was definitely an inviting sing-along song for Charlie and Flip, my parakeets. Little Saint Nick was good, too, upbeat and instrumental and paying tribute to one of the most successful of the popular holiday songs.
This record is characterized by deft, seemingly effortless musicianship and an impressive rock vocabulary.
--Richard Banks
(Reviewed in 2002)
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From the liner notes:
Husky Team is Dave Amels and Dennis Diken (of Smithereens fame). The musicians appearing on Christmas in Memphis are Dave Amels, organ and Wurlitzer piano; R. Stevie Moore, bass; Jon Graboff, Guitar; Joe Masucci, percussion; Richard X. Heyman, Wurlitzer piano, baritone guitar, organ; Dennis Diken, drums; Joe McGinty, Wurlitzer piano; and Chris Bolger, guitar.
Husky Team
Christmas in Memphis
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Label: Confidential Recordings
Length: 32 minutes
Genre: Blues
Release: 2002
Track List
| Song Title |
|---|
| The Man With All The Toys |
| Auld Lang Syne |
| Christmas Day |
| Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas |
| Little Saint Nick |
| Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) |
| Silent Night |
| We Three Kings |
| Hark! The Herald Angels Sing |
| Santa's Beard |
| Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town |
| Feliz Navidad |