Mario Tarradell@dallasnews.com



Carolyn Wonderland, Guy Forsyth at Uptown Theater

Craving an extra kick in your eggnog? Like your Christmas carols with a soulful, bluesy edge? Then this is your holiday party. Austin singers, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Carolyn Wonderland and Guy Forsyth bring �Holidays by Candlelight� to Grand Prairie�s Uptown Theater. The show is patterned after Wonderland and Forsyth�s duets album, Fireside Songs for the Soul.

Largely recorded onstage December 2009 at the One World Theatre in Austin, Fireside Songs for the Soul is a loose, joyful and musically sizzling collection of yuletide tunes done up in blues, rock, folk, country and big band styles. Wonderland takes to the guitar and trumpet, while Forsyth plays guitar, harmonica and saw. Both sing, imbuing these sometimes eclectic carols with blues-soaked growling, down-home country twang and big city grandeur.

Gems include covers of Matt Hubbard�s �You�re Not Gonna Get What You Want for Christmas,� John Prine�s �Christmas in Prison,� John Lennon�s �Happy Christmas (War Is Over)� and the wink-and-nod hilarity of �The Little Dealer Boy.� Told you this wasn�t your usual batch of holiday fare.

Anyway, doctor up your favorite cider and relax for an evening of slightly twisted caroling with Texas music stalwarts Carolyn Wonderland and Guy Forsyth.

Dec. 3 at 8 p.m. at Uptown Theater, 120 E. Main St., Grand Prairie. $16 to $21

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Carolyn Wonderland & Guy Forsyth

December 03, 2011

2011-12-03

Uptown Theater

Grand Prairie, Texas

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source1: Audience [Rode NT4 Stereo MIC]>Tascam DR-680 [44.1kHz, 16bitWAV]

source2: Onstage [Apex Condenser Mics]>Tascam DR-680 [44.1kHz, 16bitWAV]

source3: Soundboard>Tascam DR-680 [44.1kHz, 16bitWAV]
taped by joshua cain



mixed tracked by hanwaker nov 2012

set 1
48:27

01 -intro-
02 winter wonderland
03 run rudolph run
04 -banter-
05 <?>
06 christmas in prison
07 -banter-
08 stille nacht
09 slouching towards bethlehem
10 what good can drinking do
11 -banter-
12 <?>
13 samson and delilah
14 -banter-
15 <?>
16 outro



*2The famous Christmas song Winter Wonderland was first published in 1934. The composer was Felix Bernard (1897-1944) and the lyricist was Richard B. Smith (1901-1935).
*3"Run Rudolph Run" is a Christmas song popularized by Chuck Berry and written by Johnny Marks and Marvin Brodie and published by St. Nicholas Music
*6 john prine
*10 janis joplin

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set 2
tt 60.31


01 -intro-
02 the christmas song
03 <?>
04 <?>
05 you're not gonna get what you want( written by matt ?)
06 -banter-
07 <?>
08 there'll be only blue lights ( written by ??)
09 -banter-
10 <?>
11 <?>
12 <?>
13 <?>
fix end14 happy christmas (war is over) ( j lennon)
15 -banter-
16 <?>
17 auld lang syne
18 outro -band intro-

*2Chestnuts roasting on an open fire is definitively called the Christmas Song. The lovely music and lyrics were composed by Torme and Wells in 1946. The most popular recording of this truly great Christmas song, Chestnuts roasting on an open fire was recorded by Nat King Cole
*17Auld Lang Syne is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song
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a joshuaCain recording a hanwaker mastering and upload to dime 2012-12