Well, you are listening to Sean of the South, and I'm your host tonight, Sean Dietrich,

and we are coming to you from Northwest Florida.

I want to say Merry, Merry Christmas.

What you're about to hear is our Christmas episode.

We usually do live Christmas performances

throughout the southeast, and they're always good fun for our Christmas episode. We have

music and laughter and singing and storytelling, but this year was very different in light

of the COVID crisis.

This year, I put on four private performances for tiny crowds, socially distanced, all wearing masks,

and using liberal amounts of jug hand sanitizer from Sam's wholesale.

What you're about to hear is some of that recorded footage and recordings that have been done with me and Aaron Peters, Billy Howell, and Steve Gilmore. It bears mentioning that at

the performance in Pensacola, Florida, at Live Oak Plantation, about five hours before the

live performance was about to begin

just before we went in for rehearsal. The band who was scheduled to back me up that night

discovered that one of their band members had been exposed to COVID-19 and had to withdraw

from the performance. And so, with little time to scramble and find a solution,

I called some of my friends.

I called Aaron Peters First in Montgomery, Alabama,

who dropped what he was doing and came all the way to Pensacola.

I called Steve Gilmore next in Panama City Beach,

who dropped what he was doing and came all the way over to Pensacola.

And I called Billy Howell, guitarist, who was in Daphne, Alabama at the time, and dropped what he was doing,

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