{"id":56123,"date":"2014-12-05T00:49:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T07:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=56123"},"modified":"2014-12-04T12:52:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T19:52:05","slug":"jody-bottum-writes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/12\/jody-bottum-writes.html","title":{"rendered":"Jody Bottum writes…."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Now that Advent is here, I thought I\u2019d write you and some other of our Catholic blogging friends to see if there were any chance you might link to the promotional videos for my two new Christmas songs? I\u2019ve been exploring lyrics as a species of poetry for a couple years now (including in my last poetry book), and a studio down in Nashville has just released this weekend two of the songs about Christmas, with a beautiful young woman named Mallory Reaves doing the vocals:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The songs are for sale, too, of course\u2014only 99\u00a2!\u2014at iTunes,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/grace-and-gladness-single\/id945988943\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/grace-and-gladness-single\/id945988943<\/a>,\u00a0and Amazon,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Grace-Gladness-Joseph-Bottum\/dp\/B00Q8RZ1S0\/?tag=josebott-20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Grace-Gladness-Joseph-Bottum\/dp\/B00Q8RZ1S0\/?tag=josebott-20<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(PS\u2014The video of \u201cSome Come to See the Lord\u201d was filmed by Margaret Craycraft, a Princeton senior and daughter of Ken Craycraft, whose writing you may remember.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Advent is here, I thought I\u2019d write you and some other of our Catholic blogging friends to see if there were any chance you might link to the promotional videos for my two new Christmas songs? 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