{"id":32619,"date":"2021-11-08T07:29:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T14:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=32619"},"modified":"2021-11-08T07:29:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T14:29:16","slug":"i-dont-want-christmas-to-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/i-dont-want-christmas-to-end\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Want Christmas to End by Zach Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I Don&#8217;t Want <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> to End is the title track of a new full length <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> album by Zach Williams:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CPlASIoZDlI\" 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>Along with the title track are classics\u00a0\u201c<em><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Time Is Here<\/em>\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201c<em>This <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a><\/em>,\u201d\u00a0Williams goes all out with his southern rock mastery with songs such as\u00a0\u201c<em>Merry <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Baby<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0and\u00a0\u201c<em>Run Run Rudolph<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0The ten-track project, produced by\u00a0Jonathan Smith, was recorded at the legendary\u00a0FAME Studios\u00a0in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>From the start, this two-time GRAMMY-winning hitmaker knew he needed the right sound and vibe to celebrate the season year after year.\u00a0<em>I Don\u2019t Want <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> To End<\/em>\u00a0goes beyond that \u2013 it\u2019s a holly-jolly-party-turned-jam-session worthy of its title, and according to Williams, that\u2019s due to recording at FAME.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew we wanted it to have a rock and roll edge, a southern rock feel. That\u2019s when we got the idea to go down to Muscle Shoals.\u201d FAME, where artists from\u00a0The Gregg Allman Band,\u00a0Aretha Franklin, and\u00a0Little Richard\u00a0have recorded, is preserved in all its 1960\u2019s rock glory and a key component in capturing the sound for\u00a0<em>I Don\u2019t Want <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> To End<\/em>. \u201cWe got down there and all the original gear is still there from the Sixties,\u201d Williams says, \u201cthe original rooms, the original console. Recording there really made the songs come alive even more than I thought it was going to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recorded in the round, Williams and his band played their holiday favorites how they\u2019d want to hear them.\u00a0\u201cWhite Christmas\u201d\u00a0became an Elvis\u00a0\u201cBlue Christmas\u201d\u00a0tribute, updated to Williams\u2019 Arkansas and Tennessee roots. \u201cMerry <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Baby\u201d was reimagined as a\u00a0Van Morrison\u00a0classic. \u201cRun Run Rudolph\u201d became a\u00a0Ray Charles-inspired piano rocker.\u00a0\u201cMary Did You Know\u201d\u00a0became an entirely new song with its\u00a0\u201cMustang Sally\u201d\u00a0vibe, as if it was recorded in the Sixties. Every song, while instantly familiar, surprises with unexpected twists that still feel vintage.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0<em>I Don\u2019t Want <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> To End<\/em>, Zach Williams has created a holiday album that rocks around the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> tree while staying true to his artistry. Equal parts fun and nostalgic with a dash of prayerful hope, this classic-inspired album is easily a new <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> favorite, for now, and for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>Williams cannot wait to take these holiday songs live on the road on his<em>\u00a0I Don\u2019t Want <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> To End Tour<\/em>. Featuring special guest Anne Wilson, the 11-city tour running through December will be an evening filled with music and fun celebrating the reason for the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Don&#8217;t Want Christmas to End is the title track of a new full length Christmas album by Zach Williams: Along with the title track are classics\u00a0\u201cChristmas Time Is Here\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cThis Christmas,\u201d\u00a0Williams goes all out with his southern rock mastery with songs such as\u00a0\u201cMerry Christmas Baby&#8221;\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cRun Run Rudolph.\u201d\u00a0The ten-track project, produced by\u00a0Jonathan Smith, was recorded at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":32620,"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":17,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[911],"class_list":["post-32619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news","tag-zach-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32619","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}