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Maddie And Tae: ‘More Than Ever, We Need Christmas’

Maddie & Tae’s first holiday release, We Need Christmas, is now out. The six-track project features two originals, “Merry Married Christmas” and title track “We Need Christmas,” plus holiday favorites…

Maddie And Tae: 'More Than Ever, We Need Christmas'
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Maddie & Tae’s first holiday release, We Need Christmas, is now out. The six-track project features two originals, “Merry Married Christmas” and title track “We Need Christmas,” plus holiday favorites including “This Christmas,” “Holly Jolly Christmas,” “O Come All Ye Faithful,” and “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).”

Maddie Font says, “I think more than ever, as we say in We Need Christmas, we really need all the joy and hope and love that the holiday season brings. There’s just something about Christmas that kind of silences all the chaos for a couple of days where you just get to quiet down with your loved ones."

She adds, "We’re so excited to celebrate Christmas this year and really cherish that quality time that we didn’t get as much of this year with quarantining and everything. And,” she adds, “we get to blast our own Christmas songs for our families!”

We Need Christmas Track List:

This Christmas (Donny Hathaway, Nadine McKinnor)
Holly Jolly Christmas (Johnny Marks)
O Come All Ye Faithful (Traditional)
Merry Married Christmas (Maddie Font, Taylor Kerr, Josh Kerr)
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector)
We Need Christmas (Maddie Font, Taylor Kerr, Matthew West, AJ Pruis)

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.