“Christmas in Victorville” by Peter Day

I just heard that Peter’s song, “Christmas in Victorville,” was played this afternoon on the Barb Stanton show on Talk 960. I missed it myself — it’s been a crazy, crazy day — but I don’t know if the full story of the song, which is not a complimentary one, was explained. Peter wrote the song years ago, when he was in the midst of his divorce and not feeling a lot of warm feelings for his life or his home in Victorville. All of the things he sings about — the drug lab next door with the guns, for example — were real, but he simply mentally edited out all the positive stuff in his life at the time, as people are wont to do in that situation.

Raise your glass high
And curse the desert sky!
Christmas in Victorville:
Why, why, oh why?

You can hear an MP3 of the song at his blog.

(This isn’t the first time a Peter Day song has been heard on Barb’s show, of course. After his appearance on her show on January 12 this year, he decided to knock out a theme song for her, and she uses it midway through her show pretty much every day. Yes, it’s Peter wailing on the guitar and singing “Baaaaaaarb Stanton, she talks the talk, she talks the talk!”)

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