Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood
"Christmas Togethe"
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August 03 - 09, 2025
Year of Release: 2016
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I'm Beginning To See The Light
Ugly Christmas Sweater
Santa Baby
Feliz Navidad
What Are You Doing
New Year's Eve
Marshmallow World
Merry Christmas Means
I Love You
Hard Candy Christmas
Baby It's Cold Outside
The Man With The Bag
What I'm Thankful For
(The Thanksgiving Song)
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Christmas In July? ... Christmas in August, 2025...
It's August, 2025, yet the familiar term "Christmas In July" comes with a Christmas album, by Country artists Garth
Brooks and his wife, Trisha Yearwood. Their Christmas release, Christmas Together was released in 2016. The
album is their first christmas album Together. (When will another married music couple, Amy Grant and
Vince Gill release an album together?)
"I'm Beginning To See The Light" - is this a Christmas song? I've have heard this song before, as it was
co-written by Duke Ellington. "Ugly Christmas Sweater" (written by Garth), is a somewhat novelty-sounding Xmas
tune. "Santa Baby" has always been Eartha Kitt's Christmas song, however, Madonna did a good version. Add Trish
Yearwood to the list. Her version is good also. Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad" adds Garth Brooks to the long
list of others who have covered it. Garth puts his own style on the Xmas classic. "What Are You Doing New Year's
Eve" has that question asked every year, as Trisha's version here is another good tune for the Christmas season.
Both Garth and Trisha are singing together on the next track, "Marshwallow World." It's great to hear them
together. "Merry Christmas Means I Love You" (co-written by Garth) has Garth's own touch on an original-written
Christmas song. It fits more for the Adult Contemporary format, and could easily been covered by Michael Buble.
Trisha gets the next Xmas track, "Hard Candy Christmas." It's another fit more for Adult Contemporary.
"Baby It's Cold Outside" a classic Xmas tune for male and female duet. (It's hard to believe this song, decades
later after it's original release, it's lyrics are now "suggestive." Excuse me, pass that classic song aside, and
review that "Wap" song... Case closed.)
"The Man With The Bag" - was written in 1950 by Dudley Brooks, who was a Jazz pianist, arranger, and composer.
He had collaborated on many recordings with Elvis Presley. Ending the album is Garth's "What I'm Thankful for (The
Thanksgiving Song)", written by Garth and Trisha. James Taylor helps out on this one, as it is pure Garth in sound,
updated for 2016. Adding James Taylor is an absolute positive plus.
What's great about Garth and Trisha's Christmas Together is how they mixed both new Christmas songs with
past classics. Each song works, easily for the musical Christmas season to enjoy. The album debuted at #1 on
Billboard's Top Country Albums, and #2 on Billboard's Top Holiday Albums chart. Hopefully Garth and Trisha will record
more albums together in the future, whether it be Christmas and/or Country. And, we patiently await that to happen, for
Amy and Vince.
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