It's Beginning to Sound a Lot Like Sugarland
The holidays are still a couple of months away, but that's not stopping Sugarland from rocking Twitter with a little listening party starting today. Their first holiday album, Gold and Green is streaming right this minute, and you can hear it as soon as you log on to Twitter and tweet that you are indeed listening to Sugarland. (If you don't do Twitter, it takes about one minute to sign up. If you never want to go back to tweet or follow or be followed after today, so be it.)
What's cool about these online streams, to me, is that it does more than just play you the music. It puts you in a mood. In this case, it's an uber-twangy holiday mood. One that seems a little more festive because of Jennifer Nettles' distinctive vocals heaped on top of that mood. And five of the songs are originals, so the album has a good mix of songs you grew up with and ones your kids will grow up with.
And as usual, there are some nice touches that really stand out. There's some very nice piano on "Winter Wonderland" and a gorgeous choir on "Coming Home." The sparse guitar picking and very orchestral fiddle on "Gold and Green" makes everything looks (and sound) better in gold and green.
Kristian Bush seems to have more time on the microphone with this batch of music, which I like, too. He shares vocals with Nettles on "Holly Jolly Christmas," "O Come O Come Emmanuel" and takes the lead on "Maybe Baby (New Years Day)," which might just be the sexiest holiday song I've ever heard.
Best, though, is "Nuttin for Christmas." It is super bluegrassy mountain music perfect for decorating cookies, trimming the tree and/or wrapping gifts. I'm all for tradition, but if I can hear a little more steel guitar in December, I'm all for it.
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janetgijoenurse says:
Hey Alison since you are connected to CMT and they don’t respond to emails, tell your employee if they are going to leak Tim’s album least they could do is have the release date right. it does NOT come out the 27th but the 20th, always has.
Is this going to be corrected are not. People come to this site and see they can hear the album and now will think it comes out the 27th. Why does NO OTHER site have the info wrong just CMT.
Ham says:
Ummm Janet - this is a post about Sugarland’s Christmas release. Save it for a Tim column.
Rachel says:
Thank you Ham.
countryiscool says:
Is that really janet, or alter-ego Mahaila? Either way, go find timmy and leave the sugarland blog alone.
janetgijoenurse says:
I love Sugarland but how would you like it if CMT had the date wrong for when their CD came out and people thought a different date than the real one. I am Sugarland fans would be griping.
CMT doesn’t look at emails, the only way that they may see it is on a blog where one of the people that work for CMT post.
So I will continue to post until they correct the WRONG info.
MOLLY6 says:
I care.
Tek says:
Yes, because spamming every blog and news article will make CMT go out of its way to change something that is so small. I’m guessing you are one of those that goes to public places and whines to managers when things aren’t exactly the way YOU think it should be, and complains when employees don’t stop everything they’re doing to help you the instant you walk into the building.