Tucson country singer Drew Cooper released his first-ever Christmas song in November and last week, the video landed on CMT online.
Not only was his his bluesy, soulfully gritty version of “Please Come Home For Christmas” his first stab at holiday fare, it was his first-ever music video in the nearly dozen years he’s been doing country music full time.
Cooper recorded the song and filmed the video in October at Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in Los Angeles. It’s the same studio where he recorded his forthcoming CD “This Life” — Cooper’s first studio album in two years — which is due out in early 2022.
Texas Red Dirt country/alt-rock legend Cody Canada and his guitar-shredding teen son Dierks backed up Cooper, who over the years has been a regular on Tucson stages and has opened for some of country’s biggest names. (He has also played the main stage at Country Thunder in Florence several times in recent years.)
Also performing on the song is a veritable who’s who of LA rockers — Foo Fighters engineer John Lousteau on drums/percussion, bass player Carmine Rojas (David Bowie, Julian Lennon, Rod Stewart), keyboardist Martine Guigui (Billy Gibbons, Christina Aguilera, Lady Gaga, Peter Frampton), and Laura Mace (Foo Fighters) on backup vocals.
In a written statement, Cooper said having “these incredible players join us went far above any expectations I had.”
“Finding a new space in the song between the original version by Charles Brown and the Eagle’s version, and being able to make it our own was amazing,” he said.
Cooper’s version of the Christmas classic “Please Come Home for Christmas” is featured on cmt.com and all major streaming outlets.
