Holiday Songs and Lullabies

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Holiday Songs and Lullabies
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 27, 1998 Reprint on October 25, 2005 (2005-10-25)
RecordedJune 1998
Genre Holiday, contemporary folk, lullaby
Length36:51
Label Columbia
Producer Doug Petty
Shawn Colvin chronology
A Few Small Repairs
(1996)
Holiday Songs and Lullabies
(1998)
Whole New You
(2001)
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Holiday Songs and Lullabies is a studio album by American singer-songwriter and musician Shawn Colvin. It was released in 1998 on Columbia Records. [1]

Contents

Tracks

  1. "In the Bleak Midwinter" (Traditional) – 4:04
  2. "Christmas Time Is Here" (Vince Guaraldi, Lee Mendelson) – 2:37
  3. "Now the Day Is Over" (Traditional) – 1:47
  4. "Rocking" (Traditional) – 2:33
  5. "Windy Nights" (Robert Louis Stevenson, Alec Wilder) – 3:10
  6. "All Through the Night" (Traditional) – 2:03
  7. "Love Came Down at Christmas" (Traditional) – 3:04
  8. "Silent Night" (Josef Mohr, Franz Gruber) – 3:22
  9. "All the Pretty Li'l Horses" (Traditional) – 1:43
  10. "Little Road to Bethlehem" (Michael Head, Margaret Rose) – 2:52
  11. "Seal Lullaby" (Rudyard Kipling, Alec Wilder) – 2:29
  12. "Evening Is a Little Boy/The Night Will Never Stay" (Eleanor Farjeon, Frances Frost, Alec Wilder) – 3:09
  13. "The Christ Child's Lullaby" (Traditional) – 2:19
  14. "Close Your Eyes" (Johannes Brahms, William Engvick) – 1:39

Sequel

A sequel "The Starlighter" is due for release February 23, 2018

Personnel

Production notes:

Chart positions

YearChartPosition
1998The Billboard 200 181

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