VARIOUS - COUNTRY FAITH CHRISTMAS (9/25/15)

1.  CARRIE UNDERWOOD - Do You Hear What I Hear
2.  BRAD PAISLEY - Born On Christmas Day
3.  RASCAL FLATTS - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
4.  MARTINA McBRIDE - Silent Night
5.  HUNTER HAYES - Go Tell It On The Mountain
6.  ALAN JACKSON - Let It Be Christmas
7.  SARA EVANS - O Come All Ye Faithful
8.  GLORIANA - O Holy Night
9.  TRACE ADKINS - What Child Is This
10. LONESTAR - Reason For The Season
11. DOLLY PARTON - Joy To The World
12. CLAY WALKER - Mary Did You Know
13. TRAVIS TRITT - I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
14. JOHNNY CASH - Reading of Luke 2: 1 - 18 (NKJV)


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If you bristle at combining the spiritual and secular (hey, don't look at me; I love chocolate in my peanut butter and vice versa), then this collection of Country artists singing religious holiday standards may be for you.  The most popular of the religious standards of Christmas ("Silent Night", "O Come All Ye Faithful", "Go Tell It On The Mountain", etc.) delivered with reverent twang from today's top Country artists (Carrie Underwood, Sara Evans, Gloriana, etc.).  Toss in a couple more recent compositions that fit the theme, like Alan Jackson's "Let It Be Christmas", and top the whole thing off with a Biblical reading from Johnny Cash.  If this seems a familiar formula to you, that might be because you were down with Word's non-Christmas collection, "Country Faith", released in 2013.  This is the Word label's gift to your private and personal Country Christmas Mass.  Or perhaps it's an appropriate soundtrack for your Country Christmas dinner.  Not a whiff of Santa or Rudolph intruding on your spiritual meditation.  But not to worry; those two will put in plenty of appearances elsewhere on the musical landscape of the season.