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Nicole Atkins is the latest artist to offer up a tune for the 2020 holiday season, but instead of covering an overplayed standard, the New Jersey singer has opted to pen her own.

“Every Single Christmas” was written by Atkins and  JD McPherson, promising listeners “a raucously fun rockabilly Christmas classic.”

Elvis Costello even offered his praise of the track, saying, “I love this [‘Every Single Christmas’] and it will join Nick Lowe’s take on Roger Miller’s ‘Old Toy Trains’ and Dylan’s Christmas polka, ‘It Must Be Santa’ on my seasonal playlist… this is full on pop music, as in Lesley Gore, like Kim Wilde or even Noddy Holder, without sounding like any of them.”

Added Atkins, “I wanted to make a holiday song that I haven’t heard in a long time or maybe I have never heard before, so here it is.”

Read the singer’s recent Q&A with Relix here.

Check out the video for “Every Single Christmas” below: