Inside the 'Christmas in the Heart' Sessions
Backing singer Randy Crenshaw talks recording one of Dylan's most surprising projects
A Bob Dylan Christmas album. It seemed like a joke until it wasn’t.
As all of you subscribers are hopefully gathering your families ‘round the yuletide log and putting on Christmas in the Heart—then suffering endless griping from said families until you turn it off again—I wanted to learn about how this strange artifact came to be. So I called up one of the album’s backing vocalists, Randy Crenshaw.
Crenshaw is a professional LA singer for hire who has appeared on an extremely long list of film, TV, and music projects (seriously, click around some of the TV clips on his website, it’s a real rabbit hole). He’d never met Bob Dylan before. He’s never met him since. But he told me about one strange day in May in Los Angeles—extremely un-Christmas-y weather—helping Bob Dylan record Christmas songs.
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