Amy Grant "A Christmas Album"

A Christmas Album is the seventh album and first Christmas album by Christian music singer Amy Grant. The album was recorded in nine studios in mid-1983 and was released later that same year.

It was issued on the heels of Grant's immensely successful 1982 LP Age to Age. Primarily for the audiences she attracted with Age to Age, A Christmas Album features well-known sacred and secular standards alongside original songs, and tracks from this album continue to receive airplay to this day during the holiday season on both secular and Christian radio stations. Although not as successful as Age to Age, A Christmas Album still peaked in the Top Ten of the Christian chart and spawned a Top 20 Christian radio single in "Emmanuel." The album would eventually be certified gold in 1985, and platinum in 1989. A Christmas Album was listed at No. 40 in the 2001 book, CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music. In 2016, Grant re-recorded the song "Tennessee Christmas" as the title track of a new Christmas album. The song was released as a single from the album and charted at No. 50 on the Billboard Hot Christian Songs chart in December, 2016.

A Christmas Album was the first Amy Grant album to be released in the Compact Disc format. The original CD issue had a manufacturing flaw that caused a small, but noticeable jump during the transition between tracks 3 and 4. The remastered version does not have this defect. The album was also released as a promotional only vinyl picture disc version in a die cut sleeve.

Track listing

1. "Tennessee Christmas" Amy Grant, Gary Chapman 4:33
2. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" William H. Cummings, Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley 2:53
3. "Preiset Dem Konig! (Praise the King!)" Shane Keister 1:39
4. "Emmanuel" Michael W. Smith 2:54
5. "Little Town (new melody to O Little Town of Bethlehem)" Phillips Brooks (words), Chris Eaton (music) 2:47
6. "Christmas Hymn" Grant, Smith 2:32
7. "Love Has Come" Grant, Keister, Smith 4:02
8. "Sleigh Ride" Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish 3:35
9. "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire)" Mel Tormé, Robert Wells 3:45
10. "Heirlooms" Grant, Bannister, Bob Farrell 3:42
11. "A Mighty Fortress/Angels We Have Heard On High" Traditional 5:00

Production

Jim Baird – additional engineer

Brown Bannister – producer

Michael Blanton – cover art concept, executive producer

Mike Borum – family photography

Kevin Burns – assistant engineer

Gary Chapman – executive producer

Ken Corlew – additional engineer

Gene Eichelberger – additional engineer

Bill Farrell – cover photography, scenery

Steve Ford – assistant engineer

Daniel Garcia – assistant engineer

Amy Grant – liner notes

Dan Harrell – cover art concept, executive producer

Dennis Hill – art direction

Brent King – additional engineer

Jerry Mahler – assistant engineer

Rich Markowitz – assistant engineer

Jack Joseph Puig – engineer, mixing

Mike Ross – additional engineer

Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab, Hollywood, California

David Schober – assistant engineer