Aerosmith’s Joe Perry has released a new holiday EP and he’s gotten some help from Johnny Depp.
Depp sits in on the four tracks on rhythm guitar while Perry plays and, on two tracks, sings.
Perry said of the album “I have wanted to do a Christmas CD with Aerosmith for years, but it seems we never have the time to record one. When my Rocks [Perry’s memoir Rocks: My Life In and Out of Aerosmith] book tour ended, the timing was right … we were in L.A. with access to a studio with some really talented friends and it all fell together. I was finally able to record some Christmas classics for the fans.”
Included on the album are two instrumentals of the classics White Christmas and Silent Night. Perry says they tried to keep the arrangements close enough to the originals so people could sing along if they wanted.
Perry takes lead vocals on the Chuck Berry classic Run, Rudolph, Run and Elvis Presley’s Santa’s Back in Town.
Joe Perry’s Merry Christmas is available from the Unison Music Group and on iTunes.
