{"id":31850,"date":"2020-12-07T23:07:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T06:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=31850"},"modified":"2020-12-07T23:07:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T06:07:17","slug":"christmas-time-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/christmas-time-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of New Christmas Music: Christmas Time is Here by Little Big Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little Big Town participated in CMA&#8217;s Country <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> by unleashing these sweet harmonies from a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> classic:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P5oVf_SJQWY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CMA&#8217;s Country <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> program aired on November 30th on ABC and it brought out a lot of great music. But this one was one of the best.<\/p>\n<p>Little Big Town is not new to <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> music, having previously released <em>Have Yourself a Merry Little <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a><\/em>, <em>Go Tell it on the Mountain<\/em>, and <em>Silent Night<\/em> all as singles.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors of a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> album have been around for a while.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you have to really address the classics,\u201d band member Phillip Sweet told <em>ABC News <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/a-glimpse-of-christmas-100-years-ago\/\">Radio<\/a><\/em>. \u201cI think that&#8217;s what people want to hear. Of course, we want to do some originals. We always want to do something a little different, but always still fresh but at the same time familiar and beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The band aren&#8217;t simply leaning on musical inspiration for the record, turning also to their favourite seasonal films and traditions for inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of our favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> tradition is gathering around the television to watch holiday movies,\u201d Karen Fairchild adds. \u201cAnd I know for Kimberly [Schlapman], it starts with It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life. Ours is holiday movies and records \u2014 like, certain records have to be played in [a certain] order for Jimi [Westbrook].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Big Town participated in CMA&#8217;s Country Christmas by unleashing these sweet harmonies from a Christmas classic: CMA&#8217;s Country Christmas program aired on November 30th on ABC and it brought out a lot of great music. But this one was one of the best. Little Big Town is not new to Christmas music, having previously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31851,"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":16,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-31850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news","tag-little-big-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31850","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=31850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}