Kirk Douglas, the Guitarist for the Roots, Revamps the Holiday Classics
The New Yorker Radio Hour 
About this episode
<p><span>As the guitarist for the Roots, the band for “The Tonight Show,” Kirk Douglas plays anything and everything. So David Remnick put him to the test on some holiday classics. And two longtime </span><i><span>New Yorker</span></i><span> staffers, </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/patricia-marx"><span>Patricia Marx</span></a><span> and </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/roz-chast"><span>Roz Chast</span></a><span>, divulge their celebrated history playing together in a ukulele band. As the Daily Pukuleles, they claim, they influenced some of the biggest names in music in the sixties and beyond. But they were always a little too far ahead of the curve for the mainstream. </span></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>
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