The Christmas Album (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album)

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The Christmas Album
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Released1997
Genre Country, country rock, folk rock, bluegrass
Label Rising Tide
Producer Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band chronology
Acoustic
(1994)
The Christmas Album
(1997)
Bang, Bang, Bang
(1999)
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The Christmas Album is the 1997 album from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. This album reached 93 on the US Country charts.[ citation needed ]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Colorado Christmas" (Steve Goodman) – 3:39
  2. "We Three Kings" (John Henry Hopkins Jr., traditional arrangement) – 3:00
  3. "Christmas Dinner" (Ernest Ford) – 2:12
  4. "One Christmas Tree" (Jimmy Ibbotson, Jeff Hanna) – 4:04
  5. "Silent Night" (Franz Gruber, Joseph Mohr, traditional arrangement) – 3:53
  6. "This Christmas Morning" (Bob Carpenter) – 3:39
  7. "Silver Bells" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, traditional arrangement) – 2:54
  8. "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" (Edmund Sears, Arthur Sullivan, Richard Storrs Willis, traditional arrangement) – 3:15
  9. "Love Has Brought Him Here" (Bob Carpenter, Tom Kell) – 3:03
  10. "Little Drummer Boy" (Harry Simeone, Katherine Kennicott Davis, Henry Onorati, traditional arrangement) – 3:04
  11. "Jingle Bells" (James Lord Pierpont, traditional arrangement) – 2:57

Personnel

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Special Guest Musicians

Production

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References

All information from album liner notes unless otherwise noted. [2]

  1. Thom Owens. "Allmusic review". Rovi Corporation . Retrieved 2011-01-05.
  2. A Christmas Album, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Rising Tide rtd-53048 (1997) CD