{"id":32462,"date":"2021-10-02T12:16:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T18:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=32462"},"modified":"2021-10-02T12:16:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T18:16:14","slug":"brett-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/brett-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Young Brings New Album of Christmas Duets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superstar country artist Brett Young has announced a new <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> albums featuring duets with other major artists. Titled <em>Brett Young &amp; Friends Sing <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Classics<\/em> the artist released the first song, <em>Have Yourself a Merry Little <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a><\/em>, which he performs with Sam Fischer.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Z6Ndrlyatw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Arriving on October 22 via Big Machine Label Group, Brett Young &amp; Friends Sing <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Classics will feature 8-tracks, of which 7 are duets, that make up a star-studded list of collaborations. The project includes his previously released cover of \u201cSilver Bells\u201d as well as collaborations with Darius Rucker, Colbie Calliat, Maddie &amp; Tae, Chris Tomlin, Dann Huff, Phil Wickman, and Sam Fischer. See the full track list below.<\/p>\n<p>Aptly titled, these yule-tide pairings find Young trading stirring harmonies and celebrating the warmth of the holiday season with fresh takes on traditional songs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always known that I wanted to make a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> album one day, it was just a matter of figuring out how I could do something a little bit different,\u201d Young shared in a press release. \u201cWe tapped into an old school, lo-fi sound with \u2018Silver Bells,\u2019 and knew we had the blueprint for a full album. It means the world that so many incredible artists who I respect were open to singing with me on the project\u2026 we don\u2019t take the title \u2018Brett Young and Friends\u2019 lightly!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brett Young &amp; Friends Sing <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Classics Track List:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Silver Bells<br \/>\n2. White <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> ft. Colbie Caillat<br \/>\n3. The <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) ft. Phil Wickham<br \/>\n4. The Chipmunk Song (<a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Don\u2019t Be Late) ft. Dann Huff<br \/>\n5. Silent Night ft. Chris Tomlin<br \/>\n6. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! ft. Maddie &amp; Tae<br \/>\n7. Rockin\u2019 Around The <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Tree ft. Darius Rucker<br \/>\n8. Have Yourself A Merry Little <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> ft. Sam Fischer<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-16-12-1030x1030-1.jpg\" alt=\"Brett Young\" width=\"1030\" height=\"1030\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-16-12-1030x1030-1.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-16-12-1030x1030-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-16-12-1030x1030-1-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-16-12-1030x1030-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-16-12-1030x1030-1-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-16-12-1030x1030-1-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-16-12-1030x1030-1-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-16-12-1030x1030-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superstar country artist Brett Young has announced a new Christmas albums featuring duets with other major artists. Titled Brett Young &amp; Friends Sing Christmas Classics the artist released the first song, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, which he performs with Sam Fischer. Arriving on October 22 via Big Machine Label Group, Brett Young &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32464,"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":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[897],"class_list":["post-32462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news","tag-brett-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32462","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}