{"id":973556,"date":"2019-11-15T11:42:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T18:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=913181"},"modified":"2019-11-15T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T18:42:11","slug":"bryan-adams-unveils-new-holiday-rocker-joe-and-mary-on-surprise-christmas-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/bryan-adams-unveils-new-holiday-rocker-joe-and-mary-on-surprise-christmas-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Adams Unveils New Holiday Rocker \u2018Joe and Mary\u2019 on Surprise \u2018Christmas\u2019 EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/BrianAdams.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bryan-adams\/\">Bryan Adams<\/a> unveiled his surprise new <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/christmas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christmas\" data-tag=\"christmas\">Christmas<\/a> EP <\/em>Friday, featuring one new original song, \u201cJoe and Mary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new cut reimagines the story of Mary and Joseph as a classic rock and roll love story, with Jesus\u2019 parents fleeing their small town and finding a safe haven for themselves and their unborn child: \u201cJoe and Mary, Mary and Joe in a beat-up Buick on the open road,\u201d Adams sings, \u201cChuck Berry playing on the radio, Joe and Marry, Marry and Joe.\u201d Adams also announced that he\u2019ll be releasing a video for \u201cJoe and Mary\u201d soon.<\/p>\n<p>The five-track Christmas&nbsp;<em>EP<\/em> also boasts three previously-released Adams holiday tracks \u2014 \u201cChristmas Time,\u201d \u201cReggae Christmas\u201d and \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d \u2014 and a new rendition of \u201cMust Be Santa,\u201d an old Christmas song made famous by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bob-dylan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bob-dylan\" data-tag=\"bob-dylan\">Bob Dylan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to be releasing this <i>Christmas EP,<\/i>\u201d Adams said in a statement. \u201cIt was fun to record some new tracks and make a video for \u2018Joe and Mary.\u2019 I can\u2019t wait for everyone to hear them, alongside some of my classic Christmas songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Adams teamed up with Billy Idol for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bryan-adams-billy-idol-us-tour-828546\/\">a North American summer tour<\/a>. He\u2019s set to play a string of European shows in December. Last year, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-taylor-swift-perform-summer-of-69-with-bryan-adams-in-toronto-706706\/\">performed<\/a> his hit song \u201cSummer of \u201969\u201d with Taylor Swift in Toronto on her Reputation Tour.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bryan-adams-christmas-ep-913181\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Adams unveiled his surprise new Christmas EP Friday, featuring one new original song, \u201cJoe and Mary.\u201d The new cut reimagines the story of Mary and Joseph as a classic rock and roll love story, with Jesus\u2019 parents fleeing their small town and finding a safe haven for themselves and their unborn child: \u201cJoe and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 17:39:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}