Joy to the World: A Bluegrass Christmas
Joy to the World: A Bluegrass Christmas | ||||
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Released | October 13, 2009 | |||
Genre | Bluegrass[1] | |||
Label | Koch | |||
Producer | Charlie Daniels Tim Weeks Casey Wood | |||
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Allmusic |
Joy to the World: A Bluegrass Christmas is an album by the Charlie Daniels Band. It was released on October 13, 2009. There is a deluxe edition that is a CD/DVD.
Track listing
[edit]CD
[edit]- "Christmas Time's A-Comin'" (with the Grascals)
- "Christmas Time Down South" (with Aaron Tippin)
- "Blue Christmas" (with Jewel)
- "Mississippi Christmas Eve"
- "Hallelujah"
- "The Christmas Song" (with Dan Tyminski)
- "O Come All Ye Faithful" (with Kathy Mattea)
- "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" (with Evelyn Cox of the Cox Family)
- "Joy to the World"
- "the Christmas Story" from The Book of Luke (Luke 2:1-11)
- "Silent Night" (with Suzanne Cox of the Cox Family)
- "A Carolina Christmas Carol"
DVD
[edit]- Chapter 1: "Mississippi Christmas Eve"
- Chapter 2: "Hallelujah"
- Chapter 3: "Christmas Time's A Comin'" (with the Grascals)
- Chapter 4: "Blue Christmas" (with Suzanne Cox on the DVD)
- Chapter 5: "Silent Night" (with Suzanne Cox)
- Chapter 6: "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" (with Evelyn Cox)
- Chapter 7: "The Christmas Song" (with Dan Tyminski)
- Chapter 8: "Christmas Time Down South" (with Aaron Tippin)
- Chapter 9: "O Come All Ye Faithful" (with Kathy Mattea)
- Chapter 10: "Joy to the World" (with all artists)
Personnel
[edit]- Charlie Daniels - Arranger, composer, fiddle, acoustic guitar, producer, readings, lead & background vocals
- Charlie Hayward - Bass
- Jeremy Abshire - Fiddle
- Kristin Scott Benson - Banjo
- Bruce Ray Brown - Dobro, 12 string acoustic guitar, background vocals
- Carolyn Corlew - Background vocals
- Evelyn & Suzanne Cox - vocals & background vocals
- Terry Eldridge - Acoustic guitar, vocals
- Aubrey Haynie - Fiddle, mandolin
- Kevin Haynie - Banjo
- Jewel - Vocals
- Pat MacDonald - Cabasa, drums, shaker, tambourine
- Kathy Mattea - Vocals
- Danny Roberts - Mandolin
- Terry Allan Smith - Bass, background vocals
- Aaron Tippin - Vocals
- Dan Tyminski - Vocals
- Chris Wormer - Acoustic guitar
Chart performance
[edit]Joy to the World: A Bluegrass Christmas peaked at #8 on the U.S. "Billboard" Top Bluegrass Albums chart in 2009 and #39 on the U.S. "Billboard" Top Holiday Albums chart in 2010.
Chart (2009) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums | 8 |
Chart (2010) | Peak position |
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U.S. "Billboard" Top Holiday Albums | 39 |
Review
[edit]Joy to the World: A Bluegrass Christmas received three and a half out of five stars from AllMusic with Stephen Thomas Erlewine's concluding in his review that "Charlie Daniels brings in a few friends for the rollicking Joy to the World: A Bluegrass Christmas. This pretty much relies on holiday standards, both secular and Christian, but they're not performed lazily: the Charlie Daniels Band plays these songs with no small amount of joy, making this a small season delight."
References
[edit]- ^ Charlie Daniels Celebrates Christmas Bluegrass-Style
The Boot. Retrieved 04-02-2016 - ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Joy to the World: A Bluegrass Christmas review". Allmusic. Retrieved November 23, 2011.