This Christmas Time
title: "This Christmas Time" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["albums-produced-by-dann-huff", "bna-records-albums", "lonestar-albums", "2000-christmas-albums", "christmas-albums-by-american-artists", "country-christmas-albums"] topic_path: "arts/music" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Christmas_Time" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | This Christmas Time |
| type | studio |
| artist | Lonestar |
| cover | Lonestarxmas.jpg |
| released | |
| studio | Emerald Entertainment (Nashville, Tennessee); Sound Kitchen and Studio Works Productions (Franklin, Tennessee). |
| genre | |
| length | 44:04 |
| label | BNA |
| producer | Dann Huff |
| prev_title | Lonely Grill |
| prev_year | 1999 |
| next_title | I'm Already There |
| next_year | 2001 |
| :: |
| name = This Christmas Time | type = studio | artist = Lonestar | cover = Lonestarxmas.jpg | alt = | released = | recorded = | venue = | studio = Emerald Entertainment (Nashville, Tennessee); Sound Kitchen and Studio Works Productions (Franklin, Tennessee). | genre = | length = 44:04 | label = BNA | producer = Dann Huff | prev_title = Lonely Grill | prev_year = 1999 | next_title = I'm Already There | next_year = 2001 | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = | noprose = yes This Christmas Time is the fourth studio album and first Christmas album by the American country music group Lonestar. Their first Christmas album, it was released in 2000 on BNA Records. Most of the tracks are renditions of traditional Christmas material, with three newly written tracks — the title track, "If Every Day Could Be Christmas", and "Reason for the Season".
Track listing
| title1 = Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town | writer1 = | length1 = 4:11 | title2 = Please Come Home for Christmas | writer2 = | length2 = 2:48 | title3 = Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | writer3 = | length3 = 4:22 | title4 = If Every Day Could Be Christmas | writer4 = | length4 = 4:34 | title5 = The Little Drummer Boy | writer5 = | length5 = 4:38 | title6 = O Holy Night | writer6 = | length6 = 4:52 | title7 = Reason for the Season | writer7 = | length7 = 4:01 | title8 = What Child Is This? | writer8 = William Chatterton Dix | length8 = 3:14 | title9 = Winter Wonderland | writer9 = | length9 = 3:18 | title10 = The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) | writer10 = | length10 = 4:07 | title11 = This Christmas Time | writer11 = | length11 = 3:51 | total_length = 43:56
Personnel
Lonestar
- Richie McDonald – lead vocals, keyboards, acoustic guitar
- Dean Sams – keyboards, acoustic piano, acoustic guitar, harmonica, backing vocals
- Michael Britt – acoustic guitar, electric guitars, backing vocals
- Keech Rainwater – drums, percussion
Additional Musicians
- Tim Akers – keyboards, acoustic piano
- Matt Rollings – keyboards, acoustic piano
- Dann Huff – electric guitars
- Larry Beaird – acoustic guitar, steel guitar
- Biff Watson – acoustic guitar, bouzouki
- Bruce Bouton – steel guitar
- Paul Franklin – steel guitar
- Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
- Paul Leim – drums
- Eric Darken – percussion
- Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
- Jonathan Yudkin – cello, fiddle, mandolin
- Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson – harmonica
- Robbie Cheuvront – backing vocals
- Glen M. Childress – backing vocals
- Lisa Cochran – backing vocals
- Vicki Hampton – backing vocals
- Gene Miller – backing vocals
- Russell Terrell – backing vocals
Production
- Dann Huff – producer
- Jeff Balding – recording, mixing
- Eric Bickel – recording assistant, mix assistant
- Jed Hackett – recording assistant, mix assistant
- Mark Hagen – recording assistant, mix assistant, additional recording
- Bart Pursley – additional recording
- Shawn Simpson – digital editing
- Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)
- Robert Hadley – mastering assistant
- Mike "Frog" Griffith – production coordinator
- Norman Jean Roy – photography
- Michelle Vanderpool – hair, make-up
- Ann Waters – stylist
Charts
Weekly charts
::data[format=table] | Chart (2000) | Peak position | |---|---| ::
Year-end charts
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| Chart (2001) | Position | US Top Country Albums (Billboard) |
|---|---|---|
| 57 | ||
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References
References
- {{AllMusic
- "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2001".
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