Label: Capitol Records Nashville – B0026999-01
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 2017
Genre: Pop, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country, Holiday
A1 Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow 2:56
A2 Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 3:38
A3 What God Wants For Christmas 3:37
A4 You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch 3:27
A5 Baby, It's Cold Outside
Featuring – Sheryl Crow
3:45
A6 I'll Be Home For Christmas 3:53
B1 O Come, All Ye Faithful 4:05
B2 Winter Wonterland 2:48
B3 Candy Cane Christmas 3:23
B4 Please Come Home For Christmas 4:11
B5 Hark ! The Herald Angels Sing 3:52
B6 White Christmas 3:39
Producer – Frank Rogers
Barcode: 602557730661
Darius Rucker leaves his newly adopted country home behind for a bit of uptown swinging swagger on 2014's Home for the Holidays. This 12-track collection of standards -- apart from "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" and "O Come, All Ye Faithful," they're all secular; apart from the nondescript original "What God Wants for Christmas," they're all well-known -- is all delivered in the mock-Sinatra style that has come to suggest Christmas in popular culture. The production is clean and unfussy, sparkling just enough to suggest new-fallen snow but not enough to be tacky, and Rucker is amiable, perhaps a bit too digitally polished but possessing enough good charm to keep things moving at a nice clip. Consequently, Home for the Holidays winds up as a perfectly fine Christmas record, suited for those Rucker fans who have stuck with him from Hootie to R&B to country. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
