The Christmas Album

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 7, 1997)
• Original Release Date: October 7, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: MCA Special Products
• ASIN: B000002PJB
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,849 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #80 in Music > Miscellaneous > Holiday > Pop Vocal

Editorial Reviews

Genre: Christmas Music Media Type: Compact Disk

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the more traditional country Christmas albums, September 15, 2002

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Christmas Album (Audio CD)

Given the band's pedigree, you might expect a rocking Christmas album, but this is more of an easy listening traditional country album. There are no steel guitars and only a couple of tracks feature a fiddle, so this should appeal to a wider audience than just country fans.

There is a good mix of familiar and new songs, but the standout track is One Christmas tree, about a couple who have separated or divorced. Their children have to split Christmas between them, but their wish is that everybody could get together again under one Christmas tree. It is a very sad song, but a reflection of the times in which we live.

Colorado Christmas (written by Steve Goodman) is a song they originally recorded in 1983 for a various artists compilation titled A Christmas tradition, but they re-recorded it for this album.

The other original songs (Christmas dinner, This Christmas morning and Love has brought him here) are brilliant. Of the old standards included here, I like We three kings and It came upon the midnight clear best, but that might be because the others have been covered much more frequently. Jingle bells is done as an instrumental.

Overall, this is an excellent Christmas album - one of the best of it's kind.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Dirt Stuff, October 24, 2001

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J. Hart (Oklahoma) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Christmas Album (Audio CD)

If you like the Dirt Band, you will love this cd. This music is totally in keeping with their uniqueness as a band. The traditional songs are the weakest on the track, while the original songs are all great. One Christmas Tree and This Christmas Morning are even crankers, acoustic style. One of my most-listened-to Christmas cd's.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Christmas Party Music, April 28, 2005

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This review is from: The Christmas Album (Audio CD)

I hosted our company's Christmas party at my house. I picked up a few extra Christmas CD's and this was one of them. It literally brought a smile to my face when it started playing (and this was after an evening of fighting crowds and traffic.) I'm usually a Christmas jazz or Chistmas soul listener. This was my main music during the party and EVERYONE asked whose CD it was. When I said it was the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, I was AMAZED at how many people said they'd seen them in concert. It just gets a party going. Great CD.