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Without fail, Greg takes a familiar holiday classic, and records an acoustic treatment using his slide skills, and the talents of his family, friends and neighbors.
For 2015, he’s taken on a song from the 1966 Dr. Seuss television special, How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Watch as Greg, with his son Danny and daughter-in-law Amanda, slide around on You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch, including a dramatic re-enactment from the original.
Well done, Mr. Booth.
Alaskan dobroist Greg Booth has re-released another soulful interpretation of a Christmas classic on reso-guitar. Most years Greg records a new video for the holidays, but for 2014 he has posted this gem he initially shot for Alaskan TV in 2007.
This time it’s Bob Wells and Mel Torme’s The Christmas Song which was a hit for Nat King Cole in 1946. Such is the song’s popularity that it has been recorded in every imaginable style by what seems like every artist in the English speaking world over the intervening 68 years. Cole tracked it several times himself, with the 1961 version with orchestral backing being the most familiar.
For this cut, Greg was accompanied by his son, Danny, on bass who performs these days with Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen. Greg’s regular gig is with The Kathy Kallick Band.
Alaskan reso-wizard Greg Booth has created a tradition of recording and distributing a dobro version of a Christmas classic each year.
For 2013, it’s Sleigh Ride, written by Leroy Anderson and popularized by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops, with Amanda Kerr on fiddle and Danny Booth on bass. Danny plays with Greg as a member of The Kathy Kallick Band, and Amanda is a noted fiddler and fiddle instructor in Anchorage.
You can check out all the Christmas bluegrass we have covered at Bluegrass Today by following this link.
Alaskan reso-guitarist Greg Booth put together this lovely instrumental arrangement of I’ll Be Home For Christmas, which Bing Crosby made into a holiday standard in 1943.
Greg performs with a number of west coast bands, including Kathy Kallick, and he created the video as a Merry Christmas wish for his many friends and fans.
