Lady Antebellum are ready to release their much-anticipated Christmas album, On This Winter’s Night, Monday (October 22nd). The trio, who co-produced the album with Paul Worley, wrote the title track and arranged two other tracks – “The First Noel” and “Silent Night (Lord of My Life).”

Lady A’s Charles Kelley says his perfect “winter’s night” would be to have his family all together. “As you get a little older and everybody has their jobs and then families and kids, it definitely becomes a harder and harder thing to get everybody together at once,” says Charles. “I think that’s one thing that I kind of yearn for is a time to get all the family together at one time…it would be pretty special to have everybody in the room and almost kind of get back to where we were as kids — all waking up at Christmas morning and walking down and having that tradition.”

The 12-song collection also features such classics as “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home),” “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” “This Christmas,” “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “Blue Christmas” and “Silver Bells.”

Lady A are set to perform during the ABC-TV special, CMA Country Christmas, when it tapes Saturday, November 3rd at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.

AUDIO: Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley describes his perfect winter’s night.

Lady A (Perfect Winter’s Night-Charles) OC: …that tradition. :48
“The perfect winter’s night for me would be just all the family together. As you get a little older harder thing to get everybody together at once…I think that’s one thing that I kind of yearn for is a time to get all the family together at one time. We always have about half of them, and it’s all a matter of just getting everybody down at the same time. But it would be pretty special to have everybody in the room and almost kind of get back to where we were as kids, you know, all waking up at Christmas morning and walking down and having that tradition.”