Songs of the Season

Songs of the Season
Studio album by Randy Travis
Released	September 25, 2007 (2007-09-25)
Studio	Blackbird Studios, The Compound, The Insanery and Starstruck Studios (Nashville, Tennessee) Stepbridge Studios (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Genre	Christmas music, Country
Length	43:12
Label	Word
Producer	Kyle Lehning
Randy Travis chronology
Glory Train: Songs of Faith, Worship, and Praise (2005) Songs of the Season (2007) Around the Bend (2008)

Songs of the Season is the eighteenth studio album and the second Christmas album by American country music artist Randy Travis. It was released by Word Records on September 25, 2007. The album peaked at number 26 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.^[1] The album has sold 191,600 copies in the United States as of November 2017.^[2]

Track listing[edit]

Personnel[edit]

• Randy Travis – lead vocals, arrangements (3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12)
• Shane Keister – acoustic piano (1, 2, 4-8, 12), Hammond B3 organ (3, 4, 13), electric piano (9-11)
• Tony Harrell – Rhodes electric piano (2), harmonium (9), Hammond B3 organ (10)
• Steve Gibson – acoustic guitars (1-8, 10-13), electric guitar (9), gut-string guitar (9)
• Pat Bergeson – electric guitars (1-8, 10, 11, 13), harmonica (7), acoustic guitar (9)
• Brent Mason – electric guitars (5-8, 11, 12)
• Dan Dugmore – pedal steel guitar(1-4, 7-13), dobro (5), acoustic guitar (6)
• David Hungate – bass
• Paul Leim – drums
• Casey Wood – sleigh bells (1, 7, 10), tambourine (1, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12), cymbals (2, 5-11, 13), vibraphone (2, 3, 6, 7), triangle (5, 9), bells (6, 9, 10), shaker (6, 9, 11), Rhodes electric piano (8)
• Larry Franklin – fiddle (1, 8, 9, 12), mandolin (8, 9)
• Sheri Huffman – backing vocals (1-3, 6, 7, 9-11)
• Lisa Silver – backing vocals (1-3, 6, 7, 9-11)
• Diane Vanette – backing vocals (1-3, 6, 7, 9-11)
• Wes Hightower – backing vocals (4, 5, 8, 12, 13)
• Ann McCrary – backing vocals (4)
• Regina McCrary – backing vocals (4)

The Nashville String Machine (Tracks 1-3, 5-7, 11 & 13)

• Bergen White – arrangements and conductor
• Carl Gorodetzky – contractor
• Kirsten Cassel, John Catchings, Keith Nicholas and Carole Rabinowitz – cello
• Bruce Christensen, Jim Grosjean, Gary Vanosdale and Kristin Wilkinson – viola
• Janet Darnall, David Davidson, Conni Ellisor, Carl Gorodetzky, Cate Myer, Pamela Sixfin, Alan Umstead, Catherine Umstead, Mary Kathryn Vanosdale and Karen Winklemann – violin

Production[edit]

• Tim Marshall – executive producer
• Kyle Lehning – producer, mixing
• Casey Wood – recording, overdub recording, mix assistant, production coordinator
• Jason Lehning – vocal recording, string recording, mix assistant
• Jason Metti – recording assistant
• Andrew Click – vocal recording assistant
• Nate Dickinson – string recording assistant
• Doug Sax – mastering
• Sangwook Nam – mastering
• The Mastering Lab (Ojai, California) – mastering location
• Cheryl H. McTyre – A&R administration
• Elizabeth Travis – creative director, stylist, wardrobe, management
• Richard Logsdon – art direction
• Suzanne Hill – senior art direction
• John Mcay Morris – senior designer
• Eric Swanson – photography
• Phillip Ivey – hair, make-up

Chart performance[edit]

References[edit]