{"id":22799,"date":"2015-07-13T23:21:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T05:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=22799"},"modified":"2015-07-13T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T05:12:09","slug":"kenny-rogers-to-release-his-6th-christmas-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/kenny-rogers-to-release-his-6th-christmas-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Rogers to Release His 6th Christmas Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenny Rogers plans to release his first <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> album in 17 years this fall. Titled <em>Once Again It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a><\/em> the album shares traditional fare with new songs produced specially for the project. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/kenny-rogers-readies-milestone-christmas-album-20150713\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> provides the details:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Joining Rogers on the holiday project are Alison Krauss, who sang with the Gambler on his Number One single (with Billy Dean) &#8220;Buy Me a Rose,&#8221; in 1999. Sugarland&#8217;s Jennifer Nettles, who performed the iconic &#8220;Islands in the Stream&#8221; duet with Rogers at the 2013 CMA Awards, vocal group Home Free (who make their Grand Ole Opry debut this Friday, July 17th), pianist-songwriter Jim Brickman and sibling duo Winfield&#8217;s Locket also appear on the album.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> has been kind to Rogers over the years. His first <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> LP was released in 1981 and went double platinum. Rogers has for decades toured every holiday season with his &#8220;Christmas &#038; Hits Tour&#8221;, a tradition he plans to continue this year. His duet with Dolly Parton titled <em>&#8220;Once Upon a Christmas&#8221;<\/em> was one of the biggest <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> hits of Roger&#8217;s storied career:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zp2gCXZTwgY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenny Rogers plans to release his first Christmas album in 17 years this fall. Titled Once Again It&#8217;s Christmas the album shares traditional fare with new songs produced specially for the project. Rolling Stone provides the details: Joining Rogers on the holiday project are Alison Krauss, who sang with the Gambler on his Number One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6,2],"tags":[223,151],"class_list":["post-22799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news","tag-kenny-rogers","tag-new-christmas-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}