STOMP AND STAMMER — Zac Brown Band bassist John Driskell Hopkins has a fun new Christmas album, titled You Better Watch Out!, featuring Atlanta’s own Joe Gransden (pictured here with Hopkins) and his Big Band.
It’s a mix of styles, with a jazz ensemble backing a country and bluegrass crooner as he interprets his favorite holiday classics. This team-up does wonders with the greatest redneck Christmas carol of them all, “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer.” Hopkins revises the work of Elmo and Patsy with help from one of the world’s best banjo pickers, Bela Fleck. The end result makes the most of the talent at hand without diminishing the song’s sense of humor.
