I should wait until next week to start this contest since I'm already running the Dolly Parton contest, but honestly after listening to Sugarland's brand new "Gold and Green" CD, their very first Christmas music CD, I just couldn't wait that long. For all of you who haven't heard me mention it roughly 132 times before, I'm a Christmas music freak. I started listening to Christmas tunes on my computer at the beginning of November. But don't worry, just Christmas music here, it'll be mid December before the Christmas decorations go up.
Anyway, I got Sugarland's new "Gold and Green" yesterday and took a listen this morning. What a completely fun CD. It is by far my new favorite Christmas tunage, and trust me, I have a lot of Christmas Tunage in my collection. Jennifer Nettles smiles through every song. How do I know? Because you can just hear it, you can literally listen to a tune and visualize Jennifer smiling that big, huge, happy smile of hers. It's infectious. And the music is great too. Five of the 10 songs are Kristian and Jennifer originals, the other five are Holiday staples like Silent Night(a song that really shows Jennifer's voice off, she gave me chills), Holly Jolly Christmas, and Winter Wonderland. What I really, really enjoyed, tho, more than anything is the fact that Kristian gets to show off his singing chops, something that unfortunately doesn't happen a lot. If you listen to Holly Jolly Christmas it's Kristian that takes the lead through almost the entire song. Yay. He's got such an interesting and distinctive voice that he needs to use it more. I know all you die-hard Sugarland fans out there will tell me I'm wrong, he always uses his voice, but I'm sorry it's Jennifer that gets most of the credit for things, not that she doesn't deserve it, just that I wish we would hear him up front more often. And lucky us, Holly Jolly Christmas gives him the chance to do that.
This is just a really great CD. Get yours. Like now. And in case you take my advice, you can get your copy here
Now that I've told you to get out there and get your own copy, let me tell you that I've got one copy to give away. Not only do I have the CD to give away I have a Sugarland poster and some Sugarland gift tags, the kind that you attach to your gifts that say to and from on them, just in time for your holiday giving. The contest will run for a week (ending Friday, November 20th) and all you have to do to enter is email me at blogginmomma@hotmail.com and let me know you'd like to be entered.
And take a listen to this song from the album called Coming Home. It's by far my favorite. Enjoy.
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