Title: Christmas Songs Artist: Jars of Clay Release Date: 10/2007 Label: Nettwork, RCA Album Type(s): christmas, lyrics/libretto UPC: 067003072526 Genre: Rock Styles: Christmas, CCM, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative CCM, Holiday Moods: Earnest, Reflective, Reverent, Spiritual, Passionate, Rousing, Warm, Bittersweet, Energetic, Exuberant Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 7 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. The Gift of St. Cecilia
2. Wonderful Christmastime
3. Love Came Down at Christmas
4. O Little Town of Bethlehem
5. Hibernation Day
6. Winter Skin
7. Peace Is Here
8. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
9. Evergreen
10. Christmastime Is Here
11. Drummer Boy
12. Gabriel's Message
13. In the Bleak Midwinter
14. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

Year Type Label Catalog # 2007 CD Nettwork 30725 2007 CD RCA 0670030725

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It's unlikely that this is the holiday album Jars of Clay would have created when they first started asking their record label for the chance. With the band's sound evolving from glossy alternative folk-pop to experimental synth rock, their approach to their first full-length Christmas record evolved as well. Other changes contributed, too. After 12 years, the band fulfilled its contract with Essential Records and parted ways, immediately setting up shop as an indie act under the Nettwerk umbrella. Frontman Dan Haseltine reported that the band had wanted to do a Christmas album ever since 1995's four-song EP Little Drummer Boy, but label execs kept it from materializing. The only limit to their creativity now, it seemed, was deciding how deeply to reach into the repertoire of traditional holiday music and how much original material to infuse. Thankfully, the quartet came up with just the right mix of old and new fare, all thickly coated in textured synth layers and drum loops. The result is a highly nontraditional treatment of holiday themes, though one that will suit fans of the band from almost any era. ~ Jared Johnson, All Music Guide

Name Credits Alan Umstead Violin Carl Gorodetzky Orchestra Contractor Carole Rabinowitz-Neuen Cello Christine Dente Vocals Connie Ellisor Violin Edgar Pettman Arranger Gabe Ruschival Percussion, Vocals (Background), Producer, Bass, Keyboards, Bells, Vibraphone Gil Long Tuba Jars of Clay Performer, Producer, Arranger Jeff Bailey Trumpet Jennifer Kummer French Horn Jeremy Lutito Producer, Drums, Bells, Vibraphone, Percussion, Vocals (Background) Jim Grosjean Viola John Catchings Cello Joshua Douglas Smith Conductor, Mixing Assistant, Engineer Keith Byron Arranger Kris Wilkinson Viola Mike Odmark Conductor, Engineer Mike Paragone Assistant Engineer Mitch Dane Engineer, Conductor, Producer, Tambourine Pamela Sixfin Violin Richard Dodd Mastering Sam Levine Wind, Flute Tom Howard Horn Arrangements, String Arrangements Vance Powell Conductor, Mixing, Engineer