Your single “Must Be Christmas” with the Band of Merrymakers debuted on November 17. How did that project come about?

This past spring, I had a writing session with a fellow songwriter named Sam Hollander in LA, and he had the idea a couple of days before. He was like, “Man, let’s do a Christmas song.” We just thought, whatever happened to the golden era of these philanthropic Christmas song endeavors, the “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” and “A Very Special Christm...