Willy Vlautin - A Jockey's Christmas AEC Video With America's Child Shemekia stakes

With America's Child Shemekia stakes her claim as a riveting Americana singer of striking authenticity

'The Disappointed' duly entered the Top 40 in the UK and 'The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead' was prepared as the follow-up

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her transformation evoked by the whirling snowflakes and glittering sugar of Tchaikovsky's famous score

glamor and empty promises of Hollywood

Willy Vlautin - A Jockey's Christmas AEC Video With America's Child Shemekia stakesA Jockey's Christmas Willy Vlautin Willy Vlautin, novelist and singer songwriter for the Americana band Richmond Fontaine, has produced his first spoken word CD. A Jockey's Christmas is a dark comedy about JD, a misfit, overweight, alcoholic jockey whose career has dried up. The story chronicles his adventures on a journey home to Reno to spend the Christmas holiday with his family. A Jockey's Christmas is told in Vlautin's signature style