Home for Christmas

by Sheryl Crow

Overview

Originally released as a Hallmark exclusive for the holiday season of 2008, Home for Christmas was expanded by a single cut for its exclusive 2010 for Target: "Long Road Home," taken from Sheryl Crow's fine 2010 tribute to Southern soul, 100 Miles from Memphis. This may be a secular tune, but it fits snugly next to the rest of Home for Christmas, as that holiday record was designed as a slow, soulful stroll through seasonal classics, Crow turning in excellent versions of tunes as diverse as "Go Tell It on the Mountain," "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)," and "I'll Be Home for Christmas." Crow doesn't necessarily reinvent these songs -- "Merry Christmas Baby" is taken at a slightly faster gait than usual, "White Christmas" grooves like classic Stax -- but she does inhabit them and her band is tight and dexterous, giving this Christmas album some unexpected and welcome soul. It's a good enough holiday album that it shouldn't be thought of as a thrown-off exclusive: it's one of the better pop Christmas records of the last half of the 2000s. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	09/21/2018
Label:	A&M / Geffen / Interscope
UPC:	0602567673538
Rank:	6716

Tracks

1. Go Tell It on the Mountain
2. The Christmas Song
3. White Christmas
4. I'll Be Home for Christmas
5. Merry Christmas Baby
6. The Bells of St. Mary's
7. Blue Christmas
8. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear/O Holy Night
9. There Is a Star That Shines Tonight
10. Hello My Friend, Hello
11. All Through the Night
12. Long Road Home

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Sheryl Crow   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Traditional   Composer
Bill Bottrell   Composer
Sheryl Crow   Composer
Irving Berlin   Composer
Kim Gannon   Composer
Douglas Furber   Composer
Emmett Adams   Composer
Doyle Bramhall II   Composer
Lou Baxter   Composer
David Hayes   Arranger
Jay Johnson   Composer
Johnny Moore   Composer,Composer,Composer
Justin Stanley   Composer
Mel Torme   Composer
Buck Ram   Composer
Walter Kent   Composer
Jay W. Johnson   Composer
Robert Wells   Composer
Bill Botrell   Composer
A. Emmett Adams   Composer
Billy Hayes   Composer
Bill Hayes   Composer