Bluegrass & White Snow: A Mountain Christmas

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Bluegrass & White Snow
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 29, 2002
Genre Country / Christmas
Label Epic
Producer Emory Gordy Jr.
Patty Loveless chronology
Mountain Soul
(2001)
Bluegrass & White Snow
(2002)
On Your Way Home
(2003)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Austin Chronicle (favorable) [3]
Entertainment Weekly A− [4]

Bluegrass & White Snow: A Mountain Christmas is the twelfth album of original recordings by country music artist Patty Loveless. The first half of the album comprises covers of well-known traditional Christmas tunes. There are new renditions of the familiar "Silver Bells" and "Christmas Time's a-Coming." There are also three new tunes, all co-written by Loveless and her producer-husband Emory Gordy Jr.: "Santa Train," "Christmas Day at My House," and "Bluegrass, White Snow," the latter of which is supported by vocals from Dolly Parton and Ricky Skaggs. There is an instrumental track on the album, "Carol of the Bells." (This would be the only track on a Patty Loveless album on which Loveless herself is absent.) The album rose as high as #20 on the Billboard Top Country albums chart.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Away in a Manger" (Traditional) – 2:50
  2. "Silent Night" (Josef Mohr, Franz Gruber) – 3:14
  3. "Joy to the World" [with Jon Randall] (George Frideric Handel, Isaac Watts, Lowell Mason) – 2:12
  4. "Carol of the Bells" [instrumental] (Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych, Peter Wilhousky) – 2:36
  5. "The First Noel" (Traditional) – 2:17
  6. "Little Drummer Boy" [with Rebecca Lynn Howard] (Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone) – 3:54
  7. "Silver Bells" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) – 3:21
  8. "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Phillips Brooks, Lewis H. Redner) – 3:46
  9. "Christmas Time's A-Comin'" (Tex Logan) – 3:36
  10. "Santa Train" (Patty Loveless, Emory Gordy Jr.) – 2:58
  11. "Christmas Day at My House" (Loveless, Gordy Jr.) – 2:25
  12. "Beautiful Star of Bethlehem" (Arthur Leroy Phipps) – 3:22
  13. "Bluegrass, White Snow" (Loveless, Gordy Jr.) – 3:21

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (2002)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums2
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums20
U.S. Billboard 200172
U.S. Billboard Top Holiday Albums41

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