Released 15 years ago this Christmas season, this is the first album where Jill Phillips and her husband Andy Gullahorn share the main artist credit, though they have definitely had helped in many ways on their solo albums before and since. It's a beautiful album of Christmas carols, standards and even some originals are performed in their acoustic pop style. I love some old texts or songs I'm less familiar with showing up here like "Nations That Long In Darkness Walked" is some old text given a new melody here, and "Some Children See Him" is another song that I do not often hear. Original songs include "I Will Find A Way" and "You Came Down" and they are good reflections on the Christmas season and life. I can't help but laugh on their version of the classic duet "Baby It's Cold Outside", as the Gullahorns rework the lyrics to be about a husband and wife having a Christmas argument and the wife locking her husband out of the house, complete with beautiful harmonies and hilarious lines. Of course there's favorites like "O Holy Night" and "The First Noel" too, plus a few others we sometimes sing at church around Christmas like "Once In Royal David's City". There's even a recording of their kids singing "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" at the end with incorrect lyrics called "Piggy Pudding". This year, the album was released for the first time on vinyl as well and I included the new cover artwork as well as the old CD artwork.

Release Year: 2010
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