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The Sweetest Gift (Trisha Yearwood album)

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Released
  
September 13, 1994

Length
  
32:32

Release date
  
13 September 1994

Label
  
MCA Nashville Records

Recorded
  
1994

Artist
  
Trisha Yearwood

Producer
  
Garth Fundis

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The Sweetest Gift (1994)
  
Thinkin' About You (1995)

Genres
  
Country music, Christmas music

Similar
  
Trisha Yearwood albums, Christmas music albums

Trisha yearwood the sweetest gift


The Sweetest Gift is the fourth studio album (and first Christmas album) by country singer Trisha Yearwood.

Contents

Yearwood sings a mixture of familiar traditional and popular material, along with more recent compositions such as "It Wasn't His Child" and "There's a New Kid in Town". Two of its tracks managed to achieve positions near the lower end of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart: "It Wasn't His Child" peaked at #60, and "Reindeer Boogie" at #63. The album rose to the #17 position in the Country Albums chart. A re-release of the album in 2000 has a different album cover, a promotional photograph taken during the Real Live Woman promotional period.

Yearwood covers a series of Christmas standards in a country music format. The album was a given a positive review by Allmusic, receiving 4 out of 5 stars.

Track listing

  1. "Sweet Little Jesus Boy" (Bob MacGimsey) - 2:42
  2. "Reindeer Boogie" (Charlie Faircloth, Hank Snow, Cordia Volkmar) - 2:38
  3. "Take a Walk Through Bethlehem" (Ashley Cleveland, John Barlow Jarvis, Wally Wilson) - 3:49
  4. "Santa Claus Is Back in Town" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) - 3:00
  5. "It Wasn't His Child" (Skip Ewing) - 3:54
  6. "Away in a Manger" (traditional) - 2:39
  7. "The Sweetest Gift" (James Coats) - 3:02
  8. "There's a New Kid in Town" (Don Cook, Curly Putman, Keith Whitley) - 4:27
  9. "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 2:26
  10. "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) - 3:58

Musicians

  • Bobby All – acoustic guitar
  • Sam Bacco – percussion
  • Eddie Bayers – drums
  • Ashley Cleveland – harmony vocals
  • David Davidson – violin
  • Stuart Duncan – fiddle, mandolin
  • Connie Ellisor – violin
  • Paul Franklin – dobro, electric guitar, steel guitar
  • Garth Fundis – harmony vocals
  • Johnny Garcia – electric guitar
  • Carl Gorodetzky – violin
  • Jim Grosjean – viola
  • Jay Hager – bass
  • Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
  • John Hobbs – string arrangements
  • Dann Huff – electric guitar
  • Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson – harmonica
  • Lee Larrison – viola
  • Brent Mason – electric guitar
  • Robert Mason – cello
  • Rick McClure – drums
  • Nashville String Machine – strings
  • Steve Nathan – piano, keyboards
  • Scott Paschall – production assistant, assistant producer
  • Dave Pomeroy – bass
  • Becky Priest – piano
  • Heather Risser – fiddle
  • Matt Rollings – piano
  • Pamela Sixfin – violin
  • Alan Umstead – violin
  • Mary Kathryn Vanosdale – violin
  • Billy Joe Walker, Jr. – acoustic guitar
  • Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
  • Kristin Wilkinson – viola
  • Trisha Yearwood – vocals, harmony vocals

    • Technical

  • Katherine DeVault – art direction, design
  • Garth Fundis – producer, engineer, mixing
  • Carlos Grier – digital editing
  • Jerry Joyner – design
  • Gary Laney – design
  • Senor McGuire – photography
  • Scott Paschall – assistant producer, production assistant
  • Denny Purcell – mastering
  • Randee St. Nicholas – photography
  • Dave Sinko – engineering, mixing
  • Virginia Team – art direction
  • Debra Wingo – hair stylist

    • Songs

    1Sweet Little Jesus Boy2:43
    2Reindeer Boogie2:38
    3Take a Walk Through Bethlehem3:50

    References

    The Sweetest Gift (Trisha Yearwood album) Wikipedia
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