Todd DeFeo • Pass the Eggnog [single]
Released December 2, 2024.
- Pass the Eggnog
- Deck the Halls Blues
All songs written by Todd DeFeo (ASCAP).
Produced by Joe Nevark.
The Story Behind Pass the Eggnog
Released in early December 2024, Pass the Eggnog revived two original Christmas songs that had begun during abandoned recording projects five years earlier.
The title track was first recorded in December 2019 but was never completed for release. The song did not disappear entirely. Elements from the original recording were later incorporated into “No Road Back to You,” which appeared on All That We Left Behind in December 2021.
In 2024, “Pass the Eggnog” was recorded again and finally released under its original title. The single was produced by Joe Nevark and paired with “Deck the Halls Blues,” another song whose history reached back to the 2019 holiday sessions.
At least five takes of “Deck the Halls Blues” were recorded on Dec. 24, 2019, as part of a different project. Those attempts remained unreleased, and a later version was completed in November 2024 for its debut as the single’s B-side.
The finished release brought both songs out of the archive while preserving their unusual histories. One had partly evolved into another composition before returning to its original form. The other waited nearly five years for its first release.
Playful, seasonal and rooted in unfinished ideas, Pass the Eggnog turned two abandoned recordings into a compact holiday single.