Kirk Douglas is a singer and the lead guitarist for the Roots, the legendary three-decade hip-hop band that has backed up Jimmy Fallon’s talk shows since 2009. Douglas himself is a bona-fide guitar hero—an old-school shredder influenced by Eddie van Halen. Remnick asked Douglas to tackle a New Yorker Radio Hour holiday challenge: revitalizing too-familiar holiday songs like “The Little Drummer Boy,” “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” and even “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”
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