Through the Many Winters, A Christmas Album

Through the Many Winters, A Christmas Album is a 2005 Christmas album by Michael McDonald. It was one of the first in the longstanding series of annual seasonal albums commissioned and retailed by Hallmark Cards to have reliable sales figures published, despite being sold through Hallmark's 4,000 card franchise shops, rather than through normal record shops in the Billboard chart system. The album was released three weeks before Thanksgiving, and reached Gold status two weeks after its release. At the time of its release, the album was priced at $7.95 with a purchase of three Hallmark cards.

Track listing

"Silent Night" – 4:47
"O Holy Night" – 5:06
"Come, O Come Emanuel/What Month Was Jesus Born" – 4:10
"Deck the Halls/Jingle Bells" – 2:50
"O Tannenbaum" – 1:55
"Wexford Carol" – 5:01
"God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" – 3:35
"Through the Many Winters" – 6:51
"Christmas on the Bayou" – 3:41
"Auld Lang Syne/O Tannenbaum " – 2:26

Personnel

Michael McDonald – vocals, acoustic guitar, bass, acoustic piano, backing vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, dulcimer, Hammond B3 organ, Rhodes electric piano, accordion
Pat Coil – synthesizers, string arrangements, keyboards, Hammond B3 organ, acoustic piano
Josh Henson – electric guitars, acoustic guitar, bass
Russell Bono – additional electric guitars, backing vocals
Tom Hemby – nylon guitar
Shannon Forrest – programming, drums
Conni Ellisor – strings
Anthony LaMarchina – strings
Mark Douthit – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Stuart Duncan – fiddle
Pat Bergeson – harmonica
Daniel Moore II – backing vocals
Drea Rheneé – backing vocals
Kabanya Vinson – backing vocals
Amy Holland – vocals

Production

Producers – Michael McDonald, Shannon Forrest and Grady Walker.
Production coordination – Kathy Walker
Engineer – Shannon Forrest
Second engineer – Grady Walker
Recorded and mixed at Bingham Bend.
Mastered by Jim DeMain at Yes Master.
Management – Joel Hoffner and Ken Levitan at Vector Management.