![]() What I did was hire Nashville’s finest team of jingle players and writers. Making these songs fresh, unique and different was my goal. Because Christmas songs have been recorded by so many people with so many different approaches, it was really a challenge to try to figure out a new and different way of coming at the same old songs. I definitely did not want to do the straight ahead melody approach of Buddy Emmons or the country steel guitar approach of several other fine players. I have heard other steel players do Christmas albums that really just sort of sounded like a country recording session only using Christmas material as the format. So I asked myself what approach I should use to a Christmas album to make it interesting, tasteful and extremely listenable to children of all ages and musicians of varied tastes. This is my favorite Buddy Emmons album ever. I was even one of these folks until I heard Buddy Emmons steel guitar approach to his Christmas album. Many of us are extremely tired of even hearing a Christmas song. All of us have heard every Christmas song in the world our entire lives. In the process of approaching my production of a Christmas album, I have had to face many interesting problems. ![]()
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