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It's Been a Minute

Encore Interview: Maroon 5's PJ Morton On Reimagining Classic Christmas Songs

It's Been a Minute

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Society & Culture, News, News Commentary, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.79.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Last Christmas PJ Morton released 'Christmas With PJ.' He and Sam spoke about putting new twists on holiday classics, and what his father — a legendary gospel singer and preacher — taught him about music. Email the show at samsanders@npr.org.

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Hey y'all from NPR I'm Sam Sanders it's been a minute. Happy, happy holidays. In

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honor of the holiday season and the holiday spirit we're going to give you

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perhaps the most festive interview and it's been a minute history. It's a

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conversation full of good Christmas music and full of good cheer. Talking about

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my interview with Grammy Award winner PJ Morton. You may know PJ Morton as

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the keyboard player from the room five but he's an amazing solo R&B artist in

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his own right. Last year around this time PJ put out a really well-done Christmas

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album Christmas classics with the soul of Stevie Wonder and Donnie Hathaway and

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a sprinkle of New Orleans bounce on top really really good stuff. This album is

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called Christmas with PJ Morton. We here on the show thought that my chat with

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