Home for Christmas (BarlowGirl album)
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| Studio album by BarlowGirl | ||||
| Released | September 23, 2008 | |||
| Recorded | March – April 2008 | |||
| Genre | Jazz, Christmas | |||
| Length | 47:16 | |||
| Label | Fervent | |||
| Producer | Otto Price | |||
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Home for Christmas is the fourth studio album and first Christmas album from Christian rock band BarlowGirl. It was released on September 23, 2008 by Fervent Records and was produced by Otto Price and Susan Riley for Twelve-18 Entertainment. "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year", "Carol of the Bells / Sing We Now of Christmas", "I'll Be Home for Christmas" and "Hallelujah (Light Has Come)" were released as singles. It is BarlowGirl's sole album to deviate from a pop rock sound, as the band opts for a traditional Christmas genre instead.
When the Barlow sisters were growing up, they wished to have a baby grand piano at home. One Christmas Eve in the early 1990s, their mother convinced them to spend the day shopping. It was at that time that their father and brother moved the heavy piano inside the home. Upon noticing the piano when they returned home, the sisters had tears of joy. It was then that they began a Christmas tradition of singing carols in four-part harmony with their four female cousins.
The seven girls dreamed of creating a Christmas record at that time, a dream that materialized with Home for Christmas. The four cousins, the Shell sisters (Jessica, Jodie, Jennie and Jane), indeed share vocals with the Barlow sisters on "Panis Angelicus" and on the "Angelic Proclamation" medley.
Development of the album began in 2008, with all the instrumentation already recorded before the Barlows began their studio work in Franklin, TN and Nashville, TN in March 2008. In addition to being BarlowGirl's sole Christmas album, it is also the band's only album to omit rock music and have the sisters perform vocals only, despite implication to the contrary in the "Hallelujah (Light Has Come)" music video and in the album liner's band listing. This was done to make the album enjoyable to older generations, including parents and grandparents. Lauren Barlow lost her voice the week prior to recording. She notes that forsaking her drum set felt "weird […] but it was freeing, too". Lauren further describes the studio environment as being Christmas-themed, from the decorations ("Christmas lights and garland") to the Christmas-only music and movie policy to the air-conditioned "freezing". The Barlows' recording session concluded in April 2008.
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