THE FRONT PORCH COUNTRY BAND captures all of the spirit and emotion of the Christmas season on this, their first full-length Christmas album. Containing two new holiday suites – “The Christmas Trilogy” and “Christmas All Over The World” – this landmark production features over a dozen original new songs, taking listeners on a journey of popular musical styles that evoke all of the joys and passions, wonders and memories, of Christmas.
A creative avalanche of 19 original songs (including the 5 selections contained within their “Christmas All Over The World” suite), this album was inspired by the band’s original Worldwide Number One hit, “Christmas Once Upon A Time”— which ruled the international charts as the Number One Christmas Song In The World for over 44 weeks on the world’s largest internet music subscriber system. (That song was originally released on the band’s first full album, Somebody Tonight).
It’s all wrapped, packaged, and presented here with the band’s unmistakable gift for insightful writing, crisp instrumental performance, and soaring vocal harmonies—along with their trademark energy and emotion, with the musical sensitivity for which they’re known worldwide. Listeners will be moved by this fresh array of songs expressing unabashed reverence for the highest meaning of Christmas, along with a childlike wonder for the magic of the season—with an extra touch of playful irreverence thrown in, just for good fun.
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1. Winter Sure Fell Early
“On this midnight clear…it sure feels cold ‘round here…” The Christmas Album kicks of with this haunting new Front Porch Country Christmas heartbreaker that evokes all the feelings of isolation that can come from spending a first Christmas alone after a break-up. The crisp guitar instrumentals and sensitive vocals and harmonies combine in this classic new original track that perfectly showcases the emotional North Country sound of The Front Porch Country Band. The long line of country break-up songs just got longer – just in time for Christmas. Lyrics
2. Country Christmas
Take a “snowy sleigh-ride home” with The Front Porch Country Band. Welcome the warm comforts of the holiday with their new classic, Country Christmas. You just can’t help smiling along when you celebrate the season, “…the good ole’ country way.” Bring the whole family for a Christmas Eve homecoming sure to “…change a heart and make the world brand new.”Lyrics
3. Have You Heard About Christmas
Settle back for this tender reflection on the true story of Christmas, featuring the softer side of the band’s North Country sound. As the “set-up” number for The Christmas Trilogy, this song proves to be an ideal showcase for the band’s inspired vocal talents and rich 6-part harmonies. “Ahh…There’s something about Christmas…” The moving melody sails straight to the true heart of the season, asking simply: “Have you heard…?”Lyrics
4. Come Christmas
The first of the three songs of The Christmas Trilogy, this new production stirs ominously in the darkness before the Christmas dawn – and stands alone in the pantheon of contemporary new Christmas music. In four short minutes, listeners will inhabit the dark shadows of the uncertain anticipation that prevailed on that very first night before Christmas – and then share the joy as the darkness is overtaken by the sudden Light of His coming. The Front Porch Country Band pushes every concept of country music beyond all boundaries on this fresh new production. Lyrics
5. Beautiful Christmas Boy
This second song of The Christmas Trilogy nestles gently between the heavy spent energy of “Come Christmas” and the coming celebration of “Come Let Us Sing!” This is the babe in the manger. He’s come humbly into the world – like the soft warm glow of pre-dawn light rising gently out of the darkness, before the explosion of the coming full morning sunrise. The flowing guitar-bass-piano arrangement behind the sensitive and moving vocals paints a picture of the moment of the Savior’s birth, revealing the simple beauty in that very first Christmas. Lyrics
6. Come Let Us Sing!
The bold new contemporary Christmas classic – this is the third and culminating song for The Christmas Trilogy. The “herald” sound of The Front Porch Country Band invites hearts and voices around the globe to join in a new Christmas choral anthem – “Come, Let Us Sing!” The production showcases the band’s remarkable musical versatility with a surprising contemporary sound. Soaring atop powerful instrumental orchestration, wave upon wave of majestic vocal crescendos invite true believers everywhere to “Come! Sing!” This jubilant new celebration of the Christmas story has the power to inspire generations to come. Lyrics
7. Christmas All Over The World
Only the artistry of The Front Porch Country Band could take musical travelers around the world so convincingly. This 10-minute extravaganza sails from “acoustic folk” to “rock” to “reggae” to “calypso” and then back again to “folk” in a single seamless composition. Their original new 5-Song Suite opens with every child’s impatient yearning, “Christmas, Are You Comin’,” rolls straight into “Yes, It’s The Night Before Christmas,” – in two entertaining versions – then right on into the full-throttle island energy of “Christmas All Over The World,” only to finally and quietly return once again to the child’s eternal question, “Christmas, Are You Comin’.” This hot new track from The Front Porch Country Band demonstrates yet again why they truly are Original American Country Music’s “Ambassador’s to the World.”Lyrics
8. Fly Away Christmas
Following the high energy and exuberance of their 5-song Christmas All Over The World - SUITE, the album settles back down for this soft reflective Christmas canticle that captures the wonder of a new Christmas morning. Featuring the band’s tight 6-part vocal harmonies and carefully-crafted instrumental performances on guitars and keyboards, this original new song suggests the purity of freshly-fallen snow…a reborn spirit eager to “Fly Away, Christmas.”Lyrics
9. Another Christmas
In classic Front Porch style, the band manages to deliver the simplest of sentiments wrapped in such an effortless “sing-along” guitar performance that listeners may overlook the deceptively profound message: “What we really need…is another Christmas Day!” Here’s one for the whole family – the song that kids of all ages can quickly memorize to hum to themselves or sing together all season long. Lyrics
10. Sing Noel
“In a valley…near a village…there the children say they’ve seen Him…” Across 16th-Century Europe, Christmas songs and tales were often passed from village to village as a means for portraying to peasant children the magical wonder of the nativity story. This original new song from The Front Porch Country Band, written to be sung in French, is presented here in the band’s equally-popular Olde-English translation. Performed as a round, with rich vocal harmonies atop a ¾ waltz-time instrumental style reminiscent of another Christmas classic, “Away In A Manger,” listeners may well envision the Christmas of an earlier era, with musicians playing before simple villagers or a French king’s 16th-century royal court. (Ask about the band’s French-language version, also available.) Lyrics
11. Merry Christmas Day
Leave it to The Front Porch Country Band to release the world’s first hit song about The DAY AFTER Christmas! The band really opens up and lets it rip on this one – with a full blast of “island” fun that will keep you rockin’ along (after the reflective prelude). Here’s the song that finally answers the age-old question: what DOES Santa do during his off-season activities? Now we know. Ho-Ho-Ho. Lyrics
12. I'll Remember You This Christmas
“There’s a Christmas waitin’ somewhere…” Memories of Christmas past can rekindle loneliness at losing a loved one with feelings that often feel harshest and coldest during the Holiday Season. Featuring tender piano instrumentals, here’s a haunting new reflection of Christmas from The Front Porch Country Band that inspires us to hold on to the ones we love – and remember those we’ve lost. Lyrics
13. Last Christmas
“Leavin’ me…alone…with ghosts of Christmas past…” This powerful new country standard from The Front Porch Country Band plows fresh earth, invoking all of the personal pain and passion that can rumble just underneath the season’s lights and colorful exteriors that glisten so brightly this time of the year. This is the other side of Christmas. Few of us have been abandoned by the one we love on Christmas Eve. But anyone will be touched by this moving original composition which poignantly captures the loss of unrequited Christmas dreams – and Christmas dreamers. Lyrics
14. Christmas Once Upon A Time
For everyone who still remembers their first perfect Christmas – and longs for a more innocent time. This gentle love song evokes images of cold northern winters, with the tender vocals sitting softly against delicate acoustic guitars over the moving and imaginative gently-rocking bass. Written for the child in all of us who still recalls that one special Christmas – and dedicated to anyone who remembers a simpler time. This song spent 44 weeks as the #1 Christmas Song In World on the world’s largest internet music subscriber system. It’s the title track from the band’s landmark release of 19 original new songs: “The Christmas Album – Christmas Once Upon A Time.” The perfect audio “email greeting” for the holidays...send it on to someone you love. Merry Christmas...from The Front Porch Country Band.Lyrics
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