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Dec 6, 2018Socks is a durable holiday gift, but one that's immensely more fun and enjoyable than its wry title implies.
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Dec 6, 2018No need digging out those Setzer albums this Christmas for your hep-cat and kitty party needs. There’s a new rockabilly rebel mixing it up, and if McPherson’s first wildly successful foray into swinging holiday cheer is any indication, this might be the start of something big.
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Dec 6, 2018Producing the album themselves, he and the band also zero in on a perfectly period musical and sonic vibe for this outing.
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Dec 6, 2018JD McPherson is a vivid reinterpreter of the strutting rock ’n’ roll of the 1950s. His holiday album, Socks, is a collection of original songs with startlingly original conceits.
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Dec 21, 2018McPherson’s album is so far ahead of the rest of the 2018 pack, everyone else is having to eat his Christmas dust. All tracks are originals, every one of them a keeper.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 8
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Mixed: 3 out of 8
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Negative: 2 out of 8
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