{"id":66323,"date":"2020-12-23T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=66323"},"modified":"2020-12-21T13:47:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T13:47:38","slug":"essential-advent-calendar-december-23-americana-duo-the-imaginaries-announce-hometown-christmas-holiday-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/12\/essential-advent-calendar-december-23-americana-duo-the-imaginaries-announce-hometown-christmas-holiday-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Advent Calendar: December 23 &#8211; Americana Duo The Imaginaries Announce &#8220;Hometown Christmas&#8221; Holiday Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Oklahoma\u2019s favourite Americana husband \/ wife duo, The Imaginaries, Shane Henry (guitar, vocals) and Maggie McClure (keys, piano, vocals), are behind the door on December 23 of our Essential Advent Calendar, singing their song, &#8216;Hometown Christmas&#8217;.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Imaginaries filmed a festive music video for their original holiday song, in and around the Chickasha area, where Shane is from (socially distanced of course), with local area businesses and a small cast \/ crew. &#8216;Hometown Christmas&#8217; is the title track from The Imaginaries\u2019 album by the same name, and features 13 tracks of originals and some of the duo\u2019s holiday favourites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8216;Hometown Christmas\u2019 is a very special song to us about coming home for the holidays,\u201d say The Imaginaries. \u201cThere&#8217;s nothing quite like that feeling. We\u2019re very lucky to already be home in Oklahoma with our families and friends during the holidays because we know this year has been a very difficult one and a lot of people can\u2019t go home to be with their loved ones so we dedicate this song and video to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Watch the video for &#8216;Hometown Christmas&#8217; below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_59643\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N03G9iASA0g?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/essentiallypop.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"The Imaginaries &quot;Hometown Christmas&quot; 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