Christmas Time's A-Comin' (album)

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Christmas Time's A-Comin'
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Studio album by Sammy Kershaw
Released October 4, 1994
Genre Country
Length33:21
Label Mercury Nashville
Producer Buddy Cannon, Norro Wilson
Sammy Kershaw chronology
Feelin' Good Train
(1994)		Christmas Time's A-Comin'
(1994)		 The Hits Chapter 1
(1995)
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Christmas Time's A-Comin' is an album of Christmas music released in late 1994 by American country music singer Sammy Kershaw. His first seasonal project, it comprises a mix of traditional songs and newly recorded material. The title track, a bluegrass holiday standard written by Benjamin "Tex" Logan, charted in 1995 and 1998 on the Billboard country charts, respectively reaching #50 and #53 in those years.

Christmas music Music associated with Christmas

Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music normally performed or heard around the Christmas season. Music associated with Christmas may be purely instrumental, or in the case of many carols or songs may employ lyrics whose subject matter ranges from the nativity of Jesus Christ, to gift-giving and merrymaking, to cultural figures such as Santa Claus, among other topics. Performances of Christmas music at public concerts, in churches, at shopping malls, on city streets, and in private gatherings is an integral staple of the Christmas holiday in many cultures across the world.

Country music, also known as country and western, and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as folk music and blues.

Sammy Kershaw American country musician

Samuel Paul Kershaw is an American country music artist. He has released 16 studio albums, with three RIAA platinum certifications and two gold certifications among them. More than 25 singles have entered Top 40 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including the number one hit "She Don't Know She's Beautiful" and 10 more Top 10 hits: "Cadillac Style", "Anywhere but Here", "Haunted Heart", "Queen of My Double-Wide Trailer", "I Can't Reach Her Anymore", "National Working Woman's Holiday", "Third Rate Romance", "Meant to Be", "Vidalia", and "Love of My Life".

Contents

Track listing

  1. "We Three Kings (Part 1)" (John Henry Hopkins) – 0:53
  2. "Christmas Time's A-Comin'" (Tex Logan) – 3:17
  3. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 4:23
  4. "Please Come Home for Christmas" (Charles Brown, Gene Redd) – 2:50
  5. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Johnny Marks) – 2:35
  6. "Frosty the Snowman" (Walter Rollins, Steve Nelson) – 2:47
  7. "Daddy Stuff" (Rock Killough) – 3:59
  8. "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Dick Smith) – 2:01
  9. "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (Troy Powers, Andy Stone) – 3:37
  10. "Christmas Won't Be Christmas (Without You Here)" (Steven D. Cohen, Rick Lagneaux) – 3:36
  11. "Up on the House Top" (Benjamin Hanby) - 2:26
    • duet with daughter Erin [2]
  12. "We Three Kings (Part 2)" (Hopkins) – 0:57

Personnel

From liner notes. [2]

Musicians
Bass guitar Electric bass instrument

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

Keyboard instrument class of musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos. Other keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons, which are usually housed in bell towers or belfries of churches or municipal buildings.

Steel guitar type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument

Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii by Joseph Kekuku in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use of a bar or slide called a steel. The earliest use of an electrified steel guitar was first made in the early 1930s by Bob Dunn of Milton Brown and His Brownies, a western swing band from Fort Worth, Texas; the instrument was perfected in the mid to late 1930s by Fort Worth's Leon McAuliffe, who played for western swing band Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. Nashville later picked up the use of the steel guitar in the early days of the late 1940s and early 1950s "Honky Tonk" country & western music with a number of fine steel guitarists backing names like Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell and Webb Pierce. The term steel guitar is often mistakenly used to describe any metal body resophonic guitar.

Backing vocalists
Technical

Buddy Cannon is an American country music songwriter and record producer. Active since the late 1970s, he is known primarily for his work as Kenny Chesney's record producer, for which he won the Academy of Country Music's Producer of the Year award in 2006.

Norris Denton Wilson was an American country music singer-songwriter, producer, and member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Record producer individual who oversees and manages the recording of an artists music

A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many, varying roles during the recording process. They may gather musical ideas for the project, collaborate with the artists to select cover tunes or original songs by the artist/group, work with artists and help them to improve their songs, lyrics or arrangements.

Chart performance

Chart (1994) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 52

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. 1 2 Christmas Time's A-Comin' (CD insert). Sammy Kershaw. Mercury Records. 1994. 22638.
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