A Christmas Album (James Taylor album)


A Christmas Album is the first Christmas album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor released on a limited-edition basis in 2004, with distribution through Hallmark stores. The albums were also not carried by all Hallmark Cards stockists.

Track listing

  1. "Winter Wonderland" with Chris Botti – 3:36
  2. "Go Tell It on the Mountain" – 3:48
  3. "In the Bleak Midwinter" – 4:18
  4. "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with Natalie Cole – 4:19
  5. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" – 2:58
  6. "Jingle Bells" – 3:55
  7. "Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" with Toots Thielemans – 3:54
  8. "Deck the Halls" – 2:51
  9. "Some Children See Him" – 4:41
  10. "Who Comes This Night" – 4:17
  11. "Auld Lang Syne" – 3:41
The album originally came with an online code that could be used to download an outtake from the sessions, a cover of Joni Mitchell's "River". In 2006, Taylor's regular label, Columbia Records, reissued the album under a new title and cover. This new version also altered the track listing, with "Deck the Halls" removed and two other songs added.

Personnel

Strings
  • Ralph Morrison – concertmaster
  • Steve Erdody, Paula Hochhalter and Cecilia Tsan – cello
  • Edward Mears – contrabass
  • Karen Elaine Bakunin, Brian Dembow, Marlow Fisher, Roland Kato and Vicki Miskolczy – viola
  • Jackie Brand, Bruce Dukov, Julie Gigante, Alan Grunfield, Clayton Haslop, Tamara Hatwan, Natalie Leggett, Ralph Morrison, Claudia Parducci, Sara Parkins, Katia Popov, Josefina Vergara, Margaret Wooten and Kenneth Yerke – violin

Production