If you go
› What: Robert Earl Keen’s Fam-O-Lee: Back to the Country Jamboree Christmas Tour› Where: Tivoli Theatre, 709 Broad St.› When: 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 27› Admission: $34.50, $49.50, $64.50› For more information: 423-757-5580› Online: tivolichattanooga.com
For many people, and one could argue most people, the image of Christmas involves colored lights, stockings hung over a fireplace and snow. But not everyone lives in the North and not everyone lives in a Hallmark movie.
Robert Earl Keen grew up in Houston, and his holidays looked nothing like what we see in movies or on Christmas cards. That’s why he decided to write a song about Christmases at the Keen house when he was growing up.
“Merry Christmas from the Family,” or “Fam-O-Lee” as it is sometimes referred, opens with the lines:
Mom got drunk and Dad got drunk at our Christmas party