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Home for Christmas (Sheryl Crow album)

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Home for Christmas
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 26, 2008
RecordedJune 2008
StudioOdditorium Studio (Mendocino, CA)
Capitol Studios (Los Angeles, CA)
Genre
Length45:35
LabelA&M
ProducerBill Bottrell
Sheryl Crow chronology
Detours
(2008)
Home for Christmas
(2008)
100 Miles from Memphis
(2010)
Singles from Home for Christmas
  1. "There Is a Star That Shines Tonight"
    Released: 2009
  2. "The Christmas Song"
    Released: 2009

Home for Christmas is a Christmas album and the seventh studio album by American singer Sheryl Crow, first released in 2008 exclusively at Hallmark stores. The album was re-released in 2010 exclusively at Target stores with new artwork.[citation needed] In 2011, it finally received a major release worldwide, on CD and as a digital download.[citation needed] As of December 2011, it has sold 40,000 copies in the US.[citation needed]

Crow previously recorded "Blue Christmas" in 1997 as part of the A Very Special Christmas 3 collection, in a completely different arrangement.

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Go Tell It on the Mountain"Traditional3:06
2."The Christmas Song"Mel Tormé, Robert Wells3:22
3."White Christmas"Irving Berlin3:30
4."I'll Be Home for Christmas"Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram3:41
5."Merry Christmas Baby"Lou Baxter, Johnny Moore3:15
6."The Bells of St. Mary's"Emmett Adams, Douglas Furber4:33
7."Blue Christmas"Bill Hayes, Jay Johnson3:24
8."O Holy Night"Traditional3:39
9."There Is a Star That Shines Tonight"Sheryl Crow3:58
10."Hello My Friend, Hello" (2008 and 2011 editions only)Bill Botrell3:40
11."All Through the Night"Traditional5:13
12."Long Road Home" (2011 edition only)Crow, Doyle Bramhall II, Justin Stanley4:14

Note: "O Holy Night" features a minute-long intro of "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear".

Charts

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Album

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Chart (2010) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[1] 164
US Top Holiday Albums (Billboard)[2] 4

Singles

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Year Single Peak
positions
US AC
2009 "There Is a Star That Shines Tonight"
"The Christmas Song" 24

References

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