Track Listing

1. It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
2. Let It Snow
3. The Christmas Song
4. White Christmas
5. Baby Jesus Is Born
6. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
7. Winter Wonderland
8. Sleigh Ride
9. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
10. (There's No Place Like) Home For The Holidays
11. Silver Bells
12. Go Tell It On The Mountain
13. The Wise Men's Journey
14. O Little Town Of Bethlehem

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8931 in Music
• Released on: 1999-11-23
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Or, Will my fans forgive me for Chris Gaines? At this point, it's awfully hard to resist cynicism when it comes to the former (and future?) Chris Gaines. Brooks has settled in for an easy-listening, big-band, middle-of-the-road holiday album. Song selections, arrangements, even the title are all standard-issue Yuletide fare with only the hat on the cover to remind folks that Brooks is allegedly a country singer. This is certainly acceptable when Brooks invests the tunes with the emotion and sincerity necessary; it is atrocious when he doesn't. At its best, the CD is a mildly entertaining, leisurely holiday stroll with no surprises. At its worst moments, it sounds like the work of a two-bit, commercial-jingle hack. It's doubtful Brooks spent a great deal of time or effort putting this collection together--and he needed to pull a few songs off of 1992's Beyond the Season (a better though now-unavailable Xmas effort) just to flesh it out. But the truth of the matter is that releasing a Garth Brooks Christmas album is like printing money. The magic of Christmas? Garth Brooks's commercial power. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews

A cheerful Christmas CD
My wife and I bought this cd when it was first released and fell in love with it. This CD has a very cheerful Christmas spirit and is very well done. Although Garth is a country artist this CD would be appreciated by all music lovers.

no stars
gARTH bROOKS HAS PROVEN HE WAS IN COUNTRY MUSIC JUSTG FOR THE MONEY.I SAID YEARS AGO THE INDUSTRY WOULD PUSH THE HELL OUT OF THIS NO TALENTED SOB THEN HE WOULD BE GONE. NOW THIS ALBUM AND HIS FAILED WAL-MART DEAL SHOWS HE WAS ALWAYS A FAKE. NOTHING BUT A FAT LOP OF YOU KNOW WHAT. BY THE WAY, WHY IS HE SO SKINNY ON HIS ALBUM COVER? WE ALL KNOW HIS FAT AS PIG

Get Beyond The Season, the first Garth Christmas Album
Being a Garth nut who LOVES the first Christmas Album, "Beyond the Season", I was thrilled to hear that Garth had a new Christmas album. I rushed out and bought it and OH MY GOD, what an AWFUL album. I was SO dissapointed! The new stuff on this album doesn't gel. Garth's country voice doesn't mesh well with the Big Band sound of these songs. It sounds like he "called it in". Also, he has RECYLED and rearranged many of the songs from the first Christmas album, "Beyond The Season". This album was a big dissapointment even for a BIG Garth Nut like me!