Larry Norman
We Wish You A Larry Christmas
Reviewed by Doug Van Pelt
We Wish You A Larry Christmas is a very rare recording of People material (the band Larry was in prior to "going solo"). A few of these songs could get airplay on an oldies station, as they're totally embedded with the 60's pop radio sound, guitar tones, drum sounds, vocals, psychedelic lyrics and all. What Larry did with this one, like a couple of the others, was he "bootlegged the bootleggers." He found copies of the bootleg and is releasing the better ones, (which is only proper) and this one probably goes back further than any other Larry boots (and the songs are studio recordings, not live). This happens to be the one that Joel Pierce put out prior to being killed in a dorm fire at Greeneville College.