It Won't Be Christmas Without You
Studio album by
Brooks & Dunn
ReleasedOctober 8, 2002
GenreCountry
Length33:06
LabelArista Nashville
ProducerKix Brooks
Ronnie Dunn
Mark Wright
Greg Droman
Brooks & Dunn chronology
Steers & Stripes
(2001)		 It Won't Be Christmas Without You
(2002)		 Red Dirt Road
(2003)

It Won't Be Christmas Without You is the first Christmas music album by country group Brooks & Dunn released in 2002. Their first album of Christmas music, it features covers of traditional Christmas songs, as well as several newly written tunes. Four of the album's songs — "Hangin' 'Round the Mistletoe", the title track, "Rockin' Little Christmas" and "Winter Wonderland" — received enough airplay to enter the Billboard country music charts, peaking at numbers 47, 41, 57 and 57, respectively.[1]

The album received a 3 star rating from Allmusic, with an unattributed review praising Brooks & Dunn for "wisely foregoing the drippy, synth-laden production that ruins many contemporary country Christmas albums, instead relying on the neo-honky tonk sound that made the duo famous."[2]

Track listing

  1. "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) – 3:00
  2. "Hangin' 'Round the Mistletoe" (Kostas) – 2:41
  3. "It Won't Be Christmas Without You" (Steven Busch, Ronnie Dunn, Jerry Lynn Williams) – 3:43
  4. "Rockin' Little Christmas" (Deborah Allen, Bruce Channel) – 3:06
  5. "Blue Christmas" (Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson)– 3:29
  6. "Santa's Coming Over to Your House" (Kix Brooks, Don Cook) – 2:32
  7. "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) – 2:56
  8. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 2:24
  9. "Who Says There Ain't No Santa" (Brooks, Larry Boone, Paul Nelson) – 3:41
  10. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram) – 2:42
  11. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 2:46

Personnel

Brooks & Dunn
Additional Musicians

Charts

References

  1. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. pp. 63–64. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  2. ↑ "It Won't Be Christmas Without You review". Allmusic. Retrieved December 5, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Brooks & Dunn Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Brooks & Dunn Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Brooks & Dunn Chart History (Holiday Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2003". Billboard. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
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