New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) Country Music Hall of Famer Eddy Arnold, The Tennessee Plowboy, co-wrote "Will Santa Come To Shanty Town" based on his own childhood. He grew up poor, the son of a sharecropper, in rural TN. It's one of the sadder holiday songs - "For we don't have a fireplace or a chimney in our shack. Like the other lucky children have, who live across the track" - but BR549's Chuck Mead and his Grassy Knoll Boys put an irresistibly merry touch on thisversion, the first holiday single from new Nashville Plowboy Records.
Listen at CMT's Edge here: https://www.cmtedge.com/2012/11/28/chuck-mead-seeks-santa-in-shanty-town
The track was produced by punk legend Cheetah Chrome, who's also working on an Eddy Arnold tribute album to be released by Plowboy in spring 2013.
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