Catch of the Day – Brett Eldredge ft Meghan Trainor – “Baby It’s Cold Outside” [AUDIO]

During the upcoming holiday season, we will be doing our best each Friday to bring you the best new holiday music that Nashville has to offer. We kick it off today with an artist who could easily pass as Buddy the elf, an artist who was born and raised in Paris (Illinois) and has 5 straight number one hits under his Christmas belt, teaming with a pop-music princess who has dipped her toes in the country music river before, having co-written a #1 single for Rascal Flatts.

After graduating college in 2008, Brett Eldredge headed to Nashville in 2009 and seemingly right off the bat landed the song "I Think I've Had Enough" on Gary Allan's 2010 album Get Off On The Pain. The song led to Eldredge signing with Atlantic Records Nashville in 2010. But his road to Music City had been paved long before that, being raised in a musical family that included cousin Terry Eldredge, a member of the Grascals bluegrass group. Growing up, his Paris, IL home was filled with the sounds of Ray Charles, Ronnie Dunn and Frank Sinatra. Young Brett quickly became known as "the little kid with the big voice" and by age 15, Eldredge was in demand to play at local functions.

When Eldredge arrived in Nashville, it was apparent he needed to work on two things: his guitar playing and his songwriting. I saw artists playing songwriting showcases with just a guitar, so Eldredge sat himself in a room and and got to work with an acoustic guitar his parents had bought him in high school, but by his own admission he couldn't sit still long enough to learn to how to play. He started writing and before long was sitting in with experienced Nashville writers like "Whispering" Bill Anderson, who taught Eldredge his key song writing trick: just keep writing. Before long, Eldredge sold his first song.

Born and raised in Nantucket, Massachusetts, Meghan Trainor began performing throughout New England and across the country before entering high school. She started writing and arranging music at age 11, soon telling her family that she wanted to be a recording artist. She was discovered by Big Yellow Dog Music performing at the Durango Songwriting Expo in Colorado in 2010 at the ripe old age of 17.

Trainor signed with the label a year later, producing three records that received local distribution with the label before being signed by Epic in 2014. In 2015, her break-through single "All About That Bass" became a world wide phenomenon, hitting #1 in the U.S. and 7 other countries. She has followed it up with 6 more top-10 hits, and has also contributed music to 2015's The Peanuts Movie. She also has a venture into country music, co-writing the #1 single "I Like The Sound of That" for Rascal Flatts.

The pairing of Eldredge and Trainor is like a gift under the musical Christmas Tree.

From Eldredge's new holiday album Glow, we have the lead single in our spotlight today. Brett Eldredge and Meghan Trainor with their cover of a the classic "Baby Its Cold Outside" is our Friday Catch of the Holiday, new holiday music you haven't heard, but you'll want to hear it again.