If you have seen Jessica
Lynn playing live with her band. You will know she is renowned for her energetic
shows (and her incredible hair) but her latest single It's Just Not Christmas
shows her gentle and reflective side
Opening with a lovely
description of a fairy-tale Christmas – snow, lights and our favourite record
playing, but this isn’t going to be a fairy-tale Christmas after all. Our storyteller is actually looking at
“another Christmas without you”. The
song encapsulates that feeling of missing someone at a time that is
traditionally one for families and being together with loved ones
Whatever the reason for
being apart or for having an empty place at the Christmas table, the emotion is
there in this haunting song. Jess’s
voice almost cracks, and the soft male vocal and stunning guitar from Steve
Marks of Gasoline and Matches ensures that we can feel the love that they feel,
and the loss and loneliness. It’s a
theme that exists in many Christmas songs of the past but given an extra
dimension by the simplicity of this arrangement – two voices, two guitars. The guitar sounds are almost layers, which we
normally reserve for backing vocals, but this style of electric over acoustic
adds to the feel.
When we get to the
instrumental break, you can see very easily why Jessica invited Steve to join
her on this track – his acoustic guitar playing is sublime, and adds to the
track without being overpowering in any way
As a Christmas song, It's
Just Not Christmas won’t have you rockin’ around the Christmas tree, but it
it will give you a moment to sit back, look at the decorations and reflect on absent
friends, and perhaps raise a toast to those who aren’t with us this year for
whatever reason
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