Claude says:Jars of Clay started at Greenville College in Illinois, where they earned early buzz with a Nirvana-meets-Rudolph mashup that led to a Nashville record deal. This Christmas EP gives their folk-rock-meets-R&B approach a seasonal twist, heavy on the Little Drummer Boy. You hit it a couple times in '09 and '10 — the Grinch Mix got one spin, the standard version another — but it never became a holiday staple.