Jason Kelce and Stevie Nicks team up to cover Ron Sexsmith’s ‘Maybe This Christmas’

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Stevie Nicks have teamed up to cover Ron Sexsmith’s ‘Maybe This Christmas’.The former NFL player is set to release his annual festive album ‘A Philly Special Christmas Party’ later this month on November 22, and has already shared a collaboration with Boyz II Men in the form of ‘It’s Christmastime (In Cleveland Heights)’.The album is the third in a series of festive charity records under the band name The Philly Specials, which is made up of Jason and his Philadelphia Eagles teammates Lane Johnson and Jordan Mailata.

Their 2023 release ‘A Philly Special Christmas Special’ raised over US$3million for a range of Philadelphia-based charities.Rock icon and former Fleetwood Mac member Nicks has now joined forces with Kelce.

They can be seen together in a new Instagram video working on the song, with Nicks advising him that they could “always put more harmonies on it”.

Watch the clip and listen to the song below.A post shared by A Philly Special Christmas (@aphillyspecialchristmas)Footage of the unlikely pair – in which Kelce jokes, “Make sure Stevie can’t hear me” – was shared by the ‘A Philly Special Christmas’ account, captioned: “The duet we didn’t know we needed.”The track is produced by Charlie Hall, who also played drums on it. “I was really hoping this song would resonate with Jason when we were kicking around ideas for this record, and it’s clear from the way he inhabits that beautiful melody that it did,” he said (via Stereogum).“And to have Stevie Nicks, one of the all-time masters of emotional transference (and an all-time hero of mine) come in and amplify all this is such a dream.