{"id":1317288,"date":"2019-12-16T11:11:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T18:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1815747"},"modified":"2019-12-16T11:11:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T18:11:58","slug":"charles-esten-sings-about-christmas-from-josephs-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/charles-esten-sings-about-christmas-from-josephs-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Esten Sings About Christmas from Joseph\u2019s View"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:686208?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/shelburnec\/\" title=\"Posts by Craig Shelburne\" rel=\"author\">Craig Shelburne<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n59m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/charles-esten\">Charles Esten<\/a>, known to country fans as Deacon Claybourne in <em>Nashville<\/em>, is taking on another role in his new holiday single, \u201cOn the Road to Bethelem.\u201d Co-written with <em>Nashville<\/em> co-star Mark Collie, the song features Esten on guitar, harmonica, and vocals, as he as shares the Christmas story through Joseph\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had in mind to write a new Christmas song, and was trying to do so from a perspective I hadn\u2019t heard very often,\u201d Esten says. \u201cIt occurred to me that, although I\u2019m sure some exist, I couldn\u2019t think of any songs from Joseph\u2019s point-of-view, and that it would have been a fairly complicated and interesting one, at that. Out on that road, he would have been feeling powerful emotions while ruminating on some unbelievably weighty new information. I wanted to touch on that in a way that also had a simplicity to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G43OoSyaMAE?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G43OoSyaMAE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Esten adds, \u201cJoseph would seem to me to have been a very common man, in extraordinarily uncommon circumstances: forced onto the road by the government, wondering and worrying about the safety and future of his new family. Immediately, I began to think of him as a Springsteenian character, singing his story with nothing but a guitar and a harmonica. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI called my friend Mark, and shared that idea, and the very next morning we got together and wrote it. I\u2019m proud of what we came up with and hope it resonates with people who have heard the story so many times, but just might be moved to hear it in a new way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1815747\/charles-esten-sings-about-christmas-from-josephs-view\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Craig Shelburne 59m ago Charles Esten, known to country fans as Deacon Claybourne in Nashville, is taking on another role in his new holiday single, \u201cOn the Road to Bethelem.\u201d Co-written with Nashville co-star Mark Collie, the song features Esten on guitar, harmonica, and vocals, as he as shares the Christmas story through Joseph\u2019s [&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":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1317288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 17:50:59","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}