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Acoustic Christmas Carols

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Released
  
August 4, 1999

Artist
  
Michael Martin Murphey

Label
  
WestFest

Length
  
45:37

Release date
  
14 September 1999

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Recorded
  
St. James Episcopal Church, Taos, New Mexico

Acoustic Christmas Carols (1999)
  
Playing Favorites (2001)

Genres
  
Country music, Christmas music, Western music

Producers
  
Joey Miskulin, Michael Martin Murphey

Similar
  
Michael Martin Murphey albums, Christmas music albums

Acoustic Christmas Carols – Cowboy Christmas II is the twenty-second album by American singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey and his second album of Christmas music. Recorded at St. James Episcopal Church in Taos, New Mexico, the church Murphey attended at the time, the album consists of carols from the nineteenth century or earlier played on acoustic instruments, among them "Silent Night" and "Joy to the World". Murphey's arrangements feature his own finger-picked guitar, accompanied by John McEuen on banjo or mandolin, or Paul Sadler on hammer dulcimer. Murphey's sons, Ryan and Brennan, play blues guitar licks on "Go Tell It on the Mountain", and his daughter, Laura, sings a duet with her father on "Silent Night". This is a "spare and reverent Christmas album, appropriate for a rustic celebration in a Western church."

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Home Sweet Home" (Bishop, Paine) – 2:21
  2. "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Brooks, Redner) – 4:29
  3. "The First Noël" (Sandys) – 4:41
  4. "In the Bleak Midwinter" (Holst, Rossetti) – 3:39
  5. "Twas in the Moon of Wintertime (Huron Carole)" (Middleton, Traditional) – 2:29
  6. "Away in a Manger" (Murray, Traditional) – 2:40
  7. "Joy to the World" (Mason, Watts) – 2:33
  8. "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" (Sears, Willis) – 2:48
  9. "We Three Kings" (Hopkins) – 4:05
  10. "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (Traditional) – 3:35
  11. "Silent Night" (Gruber, Mohr) – 3:37
  12. "What Child Is This?" (Dix, Traditional) – 4:34
  13. "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" (Longfellow) – 2:40
  14. "Home Sweet Home" (reprise) (Bishop, Paine) – 1:26

Credits

Music

  • Michael Martin Murphey – vocals, guitar, tambourine, harmony vocals, arranger, producer, liner notes
  • John McEuen – banjo, Indian drums, mandolin, tambourine, guitar
  • Joey Miskulin – accordion, producer
  • Ryan Murphey – guitar
  • Paul Sadler – hammer dulcimer

    • Production

  • Craig A. Wolf – engineer
  • Dan Rudin – engineer, mixing
  • Denny Purcell – mastering
  • John Work – adaptation
  • John F. Young – translation

    • Songs

    1Home - Sweet Home2:24
    2O Little Town Of Bethlehem4:32
    3The First Noel4:43

    References

    Acoustic Christmas Carols Wikipedia
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