Shimmy Down the Chimney: A Country Christmas

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 12, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B0002ZDVKE
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #180,130 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Santa Claus Is Back In Town - Dwight Yoakam

2. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Jo Dee Messina

3. Silver Bells - The Judds

4. Christmas Rock - Toby Keith

5. The Christmas Song - Trace Adkins

6. I'll Be Home For Christmas - Glen Campbell

7. Shimmy Down the Chimney (Fill Up My Stocking) - Alison Krauss (NEW RECORDING)

8. Christmas In Your Arms - Steve Wariner

9. Pretty Paper - Willie Nelson

10. What Child Is This? - Tanya Tucker

11. Jingle Bells - Merle Haggard

12. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear - Rosanne Cash

13. Deck The Halls - SheDaisy

14. White Christmas - Kenny Rogers

15. Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer - Dolly Parton

16. Call Collect On Christmas - Del McCoury

17. Carol Of The Bells - Deana Carter

18. O Holy Night - John Berry

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars + 1.2 stars...Superb Country Christmas Collection, December 14, 2005

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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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Sure, this album's been out for more than a year, but I waited until last year's post-holiday markdowns to pick this up for less than half price. It has become one of my favorite Christmas albums (and I have more than 200).

While this is a new collection, there is only one new recording: Alison Krauss's sultry "Shimmy Down the Chimney," which was released as a single last year. What makes this such a satisfying collection is that Capitol Records has cherry picked songs from a variety of labels. So you get Dwight Yoakam (Warner Bros.) doing a rousing version of "Santa Claus Is Back in Town," the Willie Nelson (Columbia) chestnut "Pretty Paper," and bluegrass legend Del McCoury (Rebel) performing "Call Collect on Christmas."

In addition, some of these songs date back more than thirty years: Merle Haggard's traditional reading of "Jingle Bells" is from 1973. In fact, other than the title track, only three other tracks are from this decade: Jo Dee Messina's "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (2002), Steve Wariner's "Christmas in Your Arms" (2000), and Kenny Rogers' "White Christmas" (2000).

There are numerous highlights: SheDaisy perform a rollicking rendition of "Deck the Halls." Dolly Parton offers a playful version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." Deana Carter sings a haunting version of "Carol of the Bells." All in all, this quite simply a wonderful collection of some of the season's best songs by some of country's biggest stars. [Running time - 59:17] VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Country Music Fan Must Have for Christmas, October 29, 2004

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M. L. Salzman "Trace Angel" (Antioch,CA) - See all my reviews
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This is a great CD for your Christmas music collection. I am a big fan of Trace Adkins and his version of Christmas Song is wonderful. Not to mention the new one by Alison Kraus Shimmy Down the Chimney is great. If you love any artists on this CD you have to get it.
Marjorie
San Francisco Bay Area

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars My Least Favorite Christmas album, October 1, 2007

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M. Fredendall (Las Vegas) - See all my reviews
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I try every year to add holiday music to my CD collection and I thought I was safe after reading the reviews for this one. But, unfortunately, it has fallen to the bottom of my collection and is my least favorite.