Home For Christmas [LP] | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Label:    A&M Records – B0028536-01
Format:    Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:    USA & Europe
Released:    Sep 21, 2018
Genre:    Pop
Style:    Vocal, Holiday

A1        Go Tell It On The Mountain    3:07
A2        The Christmas Song
Written-By – Mel Tormé, Robert Wells (2)
3:22
A3        White Christmas
Written-By – Irving Berlin
3:30
A4        I'll Be Home For Christmas
Written-By – Buck Ram, Kim Gannon, Walter Kent
3:41
A5        Merry Christmas, Baby
Written-By – Johnny Moore (2), Lou Baxter
3:15
A6        The Bells Of St. Mary's
Arranged By – Roger Fritz
4:33
B1        Blue Christmas
Written-By – Bill Hayes*, Jay Johnson
3:23
B2        O Holy Night
Arranged By – Bill Bottrell
3:39
B3        There Is A Star That Shines Tonight
Written-By – Sheryl Crow
3:58
B4        Hello My Friend, Hello
Written-By – Bill Bottrell
3:40
B5        All Through The Night    5:15
B6        Long Road Home    4:13

Recorded At – Odditorium Studio
Recorded At – Capitol Studios
Mixed At – Odditorium Studio
Mastered At – The Mastering Lab
Distributed By – Universal Music Enterprises
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – A&M Records
Copyright © – UMG Recordings, Inc.
Arranged By [Horns] – Mic Gillette
Arranged By [Strings] – Jorge Del Barrio*
Bass – David Hayes
Contractor [Strings] – Ken Gruberman
Design – Dina Hovsepian, Irene Silva (2)
Drums – James Preston
Engineer – Calvin Turnbull
Engineer [Additional], Edited By [Pro Tools] – Mimi "Audia" Parker
Engineer [Assistant Strings Recording] – Aaron Walk, Steve Genewick
Guitar – Roger Fritz
Horn – Johnnie Bamont, Mic Gillette
Keyboards – Rick Brumbeloe
Mastered By – Doug Sax
Mastered By [Assistant] – Sangwook Nam
Mixed By – Bill Bottrell, Calvin Turnbull
Organ – Booker T.* (tracks: A4, B1, B2, B5)
Photography – Mark Seliger
Piano – Sheryl Crow (tracks: B3, B5)
Producer – Bill Bottrell
An A&M A&M Records release ℗ 2010 © 2018 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Barcode (Text): 6 02567 67353 8
Barcode (Scanned): 602567673538

Originally released as a Hallmark exclusive for the holiday season of 2008, Home for Christmas was expanded by a single cut for its exclusive 2010 for Target: "Long Road Home," taken from Sheryl Crow's fine 2010 tribute to Southern soul, 100 Miles from Memphis. This may be a secular tune, but it fits snugly next to the rest of Home for Christmas, as that holiday record was designed as a slow, soulful stroll through seasonal classics, Crow turning in excellent versions of tunes as diverse as "Go Tell It on the Mountain," "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)," and "I'll Be Home for Christmas." Crow doesn't necessarily reinvent these songs -- "Merry Christmas Baby" is taken at a slightly faster gait than usual, "White Christmas" grooves like classic Stax -- but she does inhabit them and her band is tight and dexterous, giving this Christmas album some unexpected and welcome soul. It's a good enough holiday album that it shouldn't be thought of as a thrown-off exclusive: it's one of the better pop Christmas records of the last half of the 2000s. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

• Format Type: LP
• Genre: HOLIDAY
• Format: Vinyl
• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Released: 09/21/2018