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Audio / LINER Brad Paisley (New Year)
Download“Hey everybody, it’s Brad Paisley, wishing you a Happy New Year.”
Audio / LINER Brothers Osborne (New Year)
Download“Hey! This is TJ, and I’m John, and we are Brothers Osborne. Happy New Year.”
Audio / LINER Bryce Leatherwood (New Year’s) 1
Download“Hey y’all, this is Bryce Leatherwood, and I’m wishing y’all a Happy New Year.”
Audio / LINER Bryce Leatherwood (New Year’s) 2
Download“Happy New Year’s everybody. Bryce Leatherwood out.”
Audio / LINER Carrie Underwood (New Year)
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Audio / LINER Dalton Dover (Happy New Year)
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Audio / LINER Dalton Dover (5 Countdown)
Download“Hey y’all, this is Dalton Dover. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Happy New Year!”
Audio / LINER Darius Rucker (Happy New Year)
Download“Hey y’all! What’s up? This is Darius Rucker, wishing you a Happy New Year!
Audio / LINER Dierks Bentley (Happy New Year)
Download“Hey, it’s Dierks Bentley. Happy New Year!”
Audio / LINER Dierks Bentley (New Year)
Download“Hi, I’m Dierks Bentley, wishing you and yours a Happy New Year.”
Audio / LINER Eric Church (5 COUNTDOWN)
Download“5-4-3-2-1…Happy New Year, everybody. I’m Eric Church.’”
Audio / LINER Eric Church (Happy New Year)
Download“Hey! It’s Eric Church, hoping you have a Happy New Year.”
Audio / LINER Jon Pardi (New Year)
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Audio / LINER Jordan Davis (New Year)
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Audio / LINER Josh Ross (New Year’s)
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Audio / LINER Josh Ross (5 Countdown)
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Audio / LINER Josh Turner (New Year)
Download“Hey! I’m Josh Turner. Happy New Year!”
Audio / LINER Kacey Musgraves (New Year)
Download“Hey! It’s Kacey Musgraves, hoping you have a safe and Happy New Year!”
Audio / LINER Kassi Ashton (New Year)
Download“Hey! It’s Kassi Ashton. I’d love to wish everyone a safe and Happy New Year.”
Audio / LINER Keith Urban (New Year)
Download“Hey everyone! This is Keith Urban. Have a safe and happy New Year.”
Audio / LINER LBT (New Year)
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Audio / LINER Luke Bryan (New Year)
Download“Hey! This is Luke Bryan, hoping you have a Happy New Year.”
Audio / LINER Luke Bryan (ring in the New Year)
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Audio / LINER Maddie & Tae (New Year)
Download“Hi! We’re Maddie & Tae, wishing you a Happy New Year.”
Audio / LINER Mickey Guyton (New Year)
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Audio / LINER Parker McCollum (New Year)
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Audio / LINER Priscilla Block (New Year)
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Audio / LINER Reba McEntire (New Year)
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Audio / LINER Sam Hunt (Happy New Year)
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Audio / LINER Shania Twain (Happy New Year)
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Audio / LINER The War And Treaty (New Year) 1
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Audio / LINER The War And Treaty (New Year) 2
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Audio / Tucker Wetmore - Happy New Year
Download“Hey what’s goin’ on it’s Tucker Wetmore. Happy New Year everybody!
UMG NASHVILLE’S NEW YEAR’S EVE CONTENT (AUDIO)
What are some of your favorite stars doing to welcome in the New Year? A few of them are working to help fans celebrate. Several artists have taken the time off around the holidays and will hit it hard when they return to the road in 2025. Some artists have resolutions, some artists look ahead to 2025 and some are very helpful with their own hangover cures for those who have a little too much fun on New Year’s Eve.
Audio / Brothers Osborne
DownloadJOHN: “I think it’s kind of funny how we spend literally the last moment and the very first moment of every year being extremely intoxicated, extremely, because you don’t want to wait until like 12:30 to get your buzz on. You’ve got to do it before midnight, and then once midnight happens, you’re like, ‘Omigod! Now it’s time to celebrate even more.’ Debauchery is the literally bookending your entire year.” TJ: “I love how everyone starts the year off with diets and then we end the year with like excessive amounts of food. And then you get to the end of the year, you’re like, ‘Oh, I’m going to start a diet on the 1st, so I’m going to eat everything that’s in front of me.’ I love it.” JOHN: “And come February 1st, ‘what diet?’” [laughs] TJ: “What diet? I’ll start it next month.” [laughs]
Audio / Brothers Osborne - Hair Of The Dog
DownloadJohn Osborne:
“Usually drinking more. I mean, a little hair of the dog never hurt anybody. Plus, it’s the first of the year.”
Audio / Darius Rucker - Staying In On NYE
Download“These days New Year’s Eve unless I get a big gig, I don’t take it. And we don’t do anything for New Year’s Eve, we stay home. New Year’s Eve is for amateurs, we stay home, New Year’s Eve.”
Audio / Dierks Bentley - NYE Audio
DownloadDierks Bentley (New Year’s) OC: …in stride. 1:11
“New Year’s is rough. New Year’s hurts no matter what’s going on. I’ve played a lot of New Year’s shows, you know, but I’ve honestly found that it’s not my favorite night to throw down. Look, for a living, that’s what I do. Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night, I host a big party; not only on stage, but I’ve got friends backstage. It starts before the concert sometimes, [and] it goes long after the concert, so a lot of times on New Year’s, I’m looking for a really mellow hang – a good party, good friends, pretty chill. Some of my best New Year’s – it doesn’t make for great radio – but some of my best New Years have been just like actually hearing fireworks go off while I’m in bed, [laughs] and know I’m gonna wake up the next morning for the first day of the New Year feeling great, feeling recharged and I’m ready to go ad go into the New Year feeling good as opposed to going into it with a giant Jagerbomb hangover, which I’ve done many, many times. So, the goal this year is to go into it feeling pretty good and the kids help with that, because you really just don’t want to be hungover with children. It’s not a good feeling. You would probably admit to any crime to get them, just feel better, and get them leave you alone. So, [I’m] gonna try to hit New Year’s this year in stride.”
Audio / Dierks Bentley - NYE No Cure For Hangover
DownloadDierks (NYE) OC: …for that. :10
“I think January first is universally accepted as a dog. So I mean, a little hair of the dog, I guess. But just…water and stay on the couch, I guess. There’s no real sure-fire cure for that.”
Audio / Eric Church - Hangover Cure
DownloadEric Church (hangover cure) OC: …every time. :17
“The best hangover cure – I’ve got two. One is 5-hour Energy [bottles], because of all the B-vitamins that are in it. You can start pounding those, and it’s either gonna work, or it’s gonna keep you up and prolong your misery. But the other one I have is just take two Advil and a beer in the morning. Hair of the dog, man – that works every time.”
Audio / Jon Pardi - NYE Hangover Cure
Download“My hangover cure is Bloody Mary’s. But be careful, because once you have a couple, don’t go to beer, because if you go to beer, you’re gonna start drinking again. And you end up a morning drunk. Or if you wanna go the non-alcoholic route, there’s nothing you can do for hangovers. You just gotta deal with it.”
Audio / Josh Ross - NYE Audio
Download“You know, obviously just the energy around it being a new year and new goals and it’s my refresh for the year, and, but it’ll I get to kind of start my refresh right at the very first moment of time, so I’m really looking forward to that.
Audio / Josh Ross - Best NYE Hangover Cure
Download“Best hangover cure—I think it’s depending on what I have to do that day or the next day. But yeah, there’s definitely two. There’s my old approach, which was the football approach when I played college football, was we used to have Sunday morning rundown and no matter how much fun you had on Saturday night, you had to be at the field at 8 or 9am and we used to have to jog around the track. Running or doing some type activity is one of the best cures. As I’ve gotten lazier, I would maybe say, sometimes just having water, having liquid IV or sometimes my grandma’s old trick of the hair of the dog is a real thing and kind of just help level you out for the day.”
Audio / Kacey Musgraves - NYE Hangover Cure
Download“Coconut water is a major help with hangovers and also, a lot of times we go and eat Vietnamese pho. It’s a soup, and it’s got this awesome broth. You can get different things in it or whatever, but for some reason, it’s just like…it’s almost like a chicken noodle soup kind of an idea, you know, but it’s good. That’s good for hangovers too. That, sleep, Tylenol, coconut water and just water, in general. And when you’re drinking, have your alcohol, drink a little bit of water, drink some more alcohol, drink some water. Yup!”
Audio / Little Big Town - Favorite NYE Day Drink
DownloadAudio / Luke Bryan - Best NYE
Download“My best New Year’s Eve is definitely when my wife and I started back dating. We started back dating right before Christmas and we went on a trip down to Florida and met some friends. And her birthday is New Year’s Eve. We celebrated it that night and it was just a great night.”
Audio / Tyler Hubbard - Playing NYE
DownloadTyler Hubbard (New Year’s memory) OC: …comes to mind. :24
“Well, this is probably a classic answer, but we did play New Year’s in New York and watched the ball drop and it was a big, special moment, one of those kind of check it off the bucket list type of moments, and we did that. And it is incredible. The energy’s amazing, and it’s super cold, but we had a great time. When I think of epic New Year’s, that’s definitely, it’s probably the first memory that comes to mind.”
Audio / Tucker Wetmore New Years Resolution (AUDIO)
DownloadTucker Wetmore’s New Year Resolution:
“Yeah, I haven’t really thought of any New Year’s resolutions for 2025. Um, probably cause my whole next year is already planned out, in the books and stamped and all I gotta do is show up. And yeah, I guess being happy would be my, my resolution for sure.”
UMG NASHVILLE CHRISTMAS CONTENT
CHRISTMAS SOUNDBITES:
Dierks Bentley, who is the father of three children (Evie, Jordan, Knox), says you revert back to your childhood at Christmas when you start having a family of your own.
Audio / Dierks Bentley.- Christmas Is For Kids (AUDIO)
DownloadDierks Bentley (Christmas is for kids) OC: …one again. :29
“You know, Christmas didn’t lose any of its real meaning, as far as its religious meaning with Jesus’ birthday. But as far as like the whole tree and all of the Christmas spirit stuff, the secular stuff, it just kind of goes away to be honest. But then you have a family, and all of a sudden, it’s like I’m all Clark Griswold out there decorating the tree, putting lights up around the house, you know. So, all of those things that you did as a kid and appreciated as a kid, you get a chance to do over again when you have kids, because you kinda become one again.”
Audio / Dierks Bentley - Christmas In The Desert (AUDIO)
DownloadDierks Bentley (Christmas in the desert) OC: …in Arizona. :32
“I grew up in Arizona, so we didn’t have like a white winter kind of deal. It’s kinda…once you experience that, it’s hard to go back and like celebrate Christmas in the desert but…for us, we would…me and my family and a couple other families would go out to the desert and bring a big turkey and just kinda have a cookout in the middle of the desert…and drink beers and ride four-wheelers and…well, I wouldn’t drink beers, but they would. We’d ride four-wheelers and horses and just kind of spend it out in the middle of the desert, which was kind of a cool way to spend Christmas. So, whenever I think of Christmas, I always think of the desert, which is a little weird, but that’s just the way we did it out in Arizona.”
Audio / Dierks Bentley - Christmas Tough For Jordan (AUDIO)
DownloadDierks Bentley (Christmas tough for Jordan) OC: …for you! :21
“It’s tough kind of for Jordan because her birthday IS on Christmas, so it’s kind of one of those things where we try to give her an extra present or two. It’s kind of tough to share your birthday with Jesus. You can get a little overshadowed on that one, but she’s good about it, but we just tell her, ‘All these Christmas trees and lights, these are all for you.’”
Audio / Dierks Bentley - Christmas Traditions
DownloadDierks Bentley (Christmas traditions) OC: …old ones, as well. :22
“One of our favorite Christmas traditions is just driving around looking at lights. Love seeing all the lights back in the valley, back in Arizona and Phoenix where I’m from, and that tradition is carried over to here for me in Nashville. We’ve got a lot of lights up on the house. We’ve got a Grinch in the front yard, as well as a talking Santa, so new traditions here in Nashville and some old ones, as well.”
Darius Rucker, who released his Christmas album Home for the Holidays in 2014, loves to take it easy during the holidays after being on the road all year long. One way he winds down is to watch Christmas movies…however, he can’t pick just one favorite.
Audio / Darius Rucker - Christmas Movies (AUDIO)
DownloadDarius Rucker (favorite Christmas movies) OC: …favorite movies. :32
“That’s such a hard question, favorite Christmas movie, because there are so many great movies that I can think of just off the top of my head that are great Christmas movies. But it would be a tie between Miracle on 34th Street, which is still just great acting, great movie. I just love it. I love watching it. I watch it probably four times every Christmas and cry at the end every time. And I love Elf. I just think Elf is one of the absolute great stories and just funniest movies I’ve ever seen and it just happens to be a Christmas movie. It’s one of my favorite movies.”
Audio / Darius Rucker - Favorite Christmas Song
DownloadDarius Rucker (favorite Christmas song) OC: …listen to. :09
“Oh, ‘The Christmas Song,’ no doubt about it. There’s a reason it’s called, ‘The Christmas Song.’ That’s my favorite Christmas song to sing and my favorite Christmas song to listen to.”
Audio / Darius Rucker - Christmas Dish (AUDIO)
DownloadDarius Rucker (Christmas dish) OC: …sweet potato pie. :17
“I’m a big food guy, as you can tell by looking at me up here. I like food a lot. But my favorite thing is my sister’s sweet potato pie. I love sweet potato pie so much, and I don’t get it very often. And my sisters always make sure I get a couple during Thanksgiving and Christmas, so that’s my favorite thing – sweet potato pie.”
Since he’s been touring so much this year, Josh Ross says he’s barely spent any time at home with his family back in Canada, so he’s looking forward to having several days with his family.
Audio / Josh Ross - Favorite Christmas Memory (AUDIO)
DownloadJosh Ross (a favorite Christmas memory) OC: …from out West. :22
“I’d say as a kid, so my sister is 12 years older than myself, so she moved out West to go to school when I was like six-years-old. She used to always come home during Christmas. I never knew when because I was young and didn’t really understand how the calendar worked, but I always remembered that my sister would fly home and come wake me up and like would always surprise me. So, that’s definitely one of my favorite Christmas memories is when my sister would come home from out West.”
Audio / Josh Ross - Christmas Present (AUDIO)
DownloadJosh Ross (Christmas present) OC: …front of a screen. :32
“All my friends had video games, and I was never very, very big into video games. I wasn’t really allowed. I was more like the go outside and play type, and honestly, this is really what speaks to me as a person now with different things in life, but I really wanted a PlayStation 2 and I remember like that was the big thing that I wanted. And I got a PlayStation 2, and I bet you I only played it for like a couple of weeks and then I was back to outside playing, and really just wasn’t super interested in it. I think that kind of still speaks to me today is I’d much rather be in the outdoors and not necessarily in front of a screen.”
Audio / Josh Ross - Christmas Spirit (AUDIO)
DownloadJosh Ross (Christmas spirit) OC: …in the spirit. :35
“My mom would definitely always be playing Christmas music. She loved Christmas music, so that’s always playing when she’s decorating and things like that. I’m excited to go back and listen to her songs on repeat (laughs), but the thing for me that would always solidify that Christmas is happening is we’d go and cut a tree down. So, my mom, dad, myself and we used to take the dog that I had as a child, we’d all go out and cut a tree down, and that’s just like a Canadian thing. I think here we import the Northern trees, so the ornaments stay on them, but up there that’s what we got to do, so that’s something I’ll always remember as a kid year after year would get me in the spirit.”
Audio / Josh Ross - The Grinch Story (AUDIO)
DownloadJosh Ross (The Grinch story) OC: …freshman year boyfriend. :36
“We were talking about Christmas movies, and I think I said I watched Elf all the way through. Now I understand what the World’s Best Coffee Shop means and all this kind of stuff and people have all these jokes around Christmas time. It’s funny, The Grinch was one of my favorite movies, and that was one that I watched, and I got to fill people in, I was like, ‘Well, my mom used to date ‘The Grinch.’’ And everybody was like, ‘Wait! What do you mean?’ And my mom’s boyfriend in high school was Jim Carrey. So, it’s kind of a cool, I guess, fun fact that most people would not know is he grew up in Burlington, Ontario and went to Aldershot High School and he was my mom’s ninth grade, or freshman year, boyfriend.”
Kassi Ashton grew up in a rural town called California, Missouri, and she took ballet and other dance classes for many years. So, one of her favorite Christmas memories include being in The Nutcracker every year. “One of my favorite Christmas traditions growing up was always being a part of The Nutcracker,” says Kassi. “[I took] ballet my entire life, and now that I’ve graduated and moved on, I go see The Nutcracker at the Nashville Ballet every year. I can’t wait to have a little girl some day and put her in ballet class.”
Audio / Kassi Ashton - Christmas Traditions (AUDIO)
DownloadKassi Ashton (Christmas traditions) OC: …ballet class. :21
“Hey, it’s Kassi Ashton. One of my favorite Christmas traditions growing up was always being a part of The Nutcracker. [I took] ballet my entire life, and now that I’ve graduated and moved on, I go see The Nutcracker at the Nashville Ballet every year. I can’t wait to have a little girl some day and put her in ballet class.”
Audio / Kassi Ashton - Christmas Song (AUDIO)
DownloadKassi Ashton (Christmas song) OC: …along perfectly. [laughs] :11
“My favorite Christmas song is ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ by Judy Garland in the key of G, because that’s my key [laughs], and I can sing along perfectly.” [laughs]
Audio / Kassi Ashton - Christmas Music (AUDIO)
DownloadKassi Ashton (Christmas music) OC: …the best. :23
“Hey, it’s Kassi Ashton. My favorite thing about Christmas hands down is Christmas music. I start playing eh, the day after Thanksgiving usually, if not a little sooner. I love the classics – Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, anything that you know by heart and you don’t have to really think about. Christmas songs are the best.”
Keith Urban and his family, including wife Nicole Kidman and daughters Sunday and Faith, usually head Down Under for the holiday, visiting family and hitting the beach, which is what he did on Christmas Day when he was a kid.
Audio / Keith Urban - Beach (AUDIO)
DownloadKeith Urban (Christmas-beach) OC: …to the beach. :24
“I have great memories of getting up early and going and jumping on your parents’ bed and getting them up. You know, and then of course you tear open the presents and then it’s done and it’s like eight in the morning, and you’ve got all morning now to sort of wish you had more presents to open. We had great Christmases growing up. I really, really enjoyed them. Mostly, we’d go to the beach, you know, ’cause there it’s summertime. Load up the station wagon and head off to the beach.”
Audio / Keith Urban - Yellow Tonka Truck (AUDIO)
DownloadKeith Urban (Christmas—yellow Tonka truck) OC: …forever, too. :09
“I got a yellow Tonka truck when I was about 6, I think, and it’s probably still my favorite Christmas gift ever. Those things last forever, too.”
Audio / Keith Urban - Christmas Spirit (AUDIO)
DownloadKeith Urban (what gets him in the Christmas spirit) OC: …goes away. :10
“The lights going up, uh, the lights, the music, all of that, the house sort of transforming into Christmas. I love it. It’s sad when it all has to go away.”
Audio / Keith Urban - Going To Beach at Christmas (AUDIO)
DownloadKeith Urban (still loves going to the beach at Christmas) OC: …explains a lot. :33
“Yeah, we still love going to the beach at Christmas time, as long as we’re in Australia, because it’s like the Fourth of July. It’s huge. Everybody’s out. It feels very celebratory. It’s in the ‘90s. It’s crazy, but having grown up with that, it feels very natural to me. Albeit it, we still had all of the same Christmas songs, so we’re in like 90-degree heat with shorts and tank tops singing ‘Walking in a Winter Wonderland,’ and I remember getting Christmas cards of like Santa on a surfboard, so that probably explains a lot.”
Reba McEntire has graced us with a couple of Christmas collections, including 1995’s Merry Christmas to You and 2006’s Secret of Giving: A Christmas Collection, as well as last year’s compilation, Ultimate Christmas Collection.
Audio / Reba McEntire - Christmas Pake
DownloadReba McEntire (Pake) OC: …down the hall. :22
“The funniest thing I can always remember about Christmastime is my older brother Pake, when we were kids at home, he’d always be the first one to jump out of bed and run down the hall, and he’d just run down the hall with his underwear on. And he’d say, ‘If y’all don’t hurry up and get up and get in here, I’m opening all the presents by myself.’ But he knew it was a standing rule we all had to be in there before anybody could open up a present, but I can still see Pake running down the hall.”
Audio / Reba McEntire - Leaving Christmas Tree Up After Holidays (AUDIO)
DownloadReba McEntire (leaving Christmas tree up) OC: …really festive. :13
“How long do I leave my Christmas tree and decorations up? Well, after Christmas I am so in tune with the sparkly lights, I leave the lights on and take the Christmas ornaments off. It keeps it really festive.”
Audio / Reba McEntire - Artificial Tree (AUDIO)
DownloadReba McEntire (artificial tree) OC: …half the year. :24
“I definitely have an artificial tree, because when we were growing up, we’d all go out on the ranch and cut down a Christmas tree, bring it in and then we had to water it every other day – make sure the coffee can was full of water – and the cedar needles got everywhere, so nowadays I just go with an artificial tree…and two, I can leave it with the lights on half the year.”
Audio / Reba McEntire - Christmas Shelby (AUDIO)
DownloadReba (Christmas memory of Shelby) OC: …he was so cute! :28
“I’ll never forget one (Christmas) morning I woke up and I was laying on my left side and I felt something, and I opened up my eyes, and Shelby was three inches away from my face. He said, ‘Mom, you’re not gonna beweive what Santy Claus weft for me.’ And so, he said you’ve got to come here. I got up out of bed and went in there and there was this little tractor trailer set that he had just fallen in love with at the store. He’s seen it, and he said, ‘I can’t beweive he bought this for me.’ He was so cute.”
Jordan Davis started a Christmas tradition when he moved to Nashville a few years ago. He goes to the historic Belcourt Theatre to catch a viewing of the classic It’s a Wonderful Life. “They play it at a theater here in town, and it’s something that I really look forward to going and seeing that movie,” he says.
Audio / Jordan Davis - Favorite Christmas Movie (AUDIO)
DownloadJordan Davis (favorite Christmas movie) OC: …a great movie. :19
“The one Christmas movie I have to watch, which Elf has slowly taken over that spot, but I would have to say It’s a Wonderful Life. Then moving to Nashville, they play it at a theater here in town, and it’s something that I really look forward to going and seeing that movie. Man, it’s just a great movie.”
Audio / Jordan Davis - Favorite Christmas Gift (AUDIO)
DownloadJordan Davis (favorite Christmas gift) OC: …great present. :41
“The one Christmas present that stands out to me – I can remember I asked for go-karts. Me and my brother asked for go-karts together. And I was actually worried that we weren’t going to get ‘em, because I knew my mom probably thought we were going to kill ourselves, but we woke up Christmas morning and me and Jacob, we run into the living room and don’t see a go-kart. I remember being like sad opening presents, and then my dad tells me he thought he heard some reindeer in the backyard. So, we jet to the back of the house and there’s two blue-and-white go-karts in the backyard. So, that’s the one I always remember. That was a great present.”
Audio / Jordan Davis - Christmas Music (AUDIO)
DownloadJordan Davis (Christmas music) OC: …music on. :41
“My favorite Christmas song is Nat King Cole’s ‘Buon Natale.’ I don’t know the record it’s on it, [but] we would just play that song over and over and over. So, that’s by far my favorite, but anything by Nat King Cole. I mean Nat King Cole is Christmas to me, always playing, always having some type of Christmas music on. I remember growing up, my mom, she would start on Thanksgiving. We would start listening to Christmas music and anytime you’d walk into the house if Mom was home, there was Christmas music playing. It was just background music, and it’s something I’ve carried over like there’s Christmas music that is played all the time. If we’re home, there’s Christmas music on.”
Parker McCollum grew up in Conroe, Texas and he and all of his family and extended family would go to his grandmother’s house on Christmas. One of his favorite childhood memories on Christmas Day was playing football in the front yard. “Every year, we would all play football in my Grandma’s front yard probably until the time I was 15 or 16 years old, every Christmas morning,” he says.
Audio / Parker McCollum - Childhood Christmas Tradition (AUDIO)
DownloadParker McCollum (Christmas childhood tradition) OC: …Christmas morning. :10
“As a kid, it was definitely football in the yard. Every year, we would all play football in my Grandma’s front yard probably until the time I was 15 or 16 years old, every Christmas morning.”
Audio / Parker McCollum - Christmas Movies (AUDIO)
DownloadParker McCollum (Christmas movies) OC: …newer ones. :21
“Favorite Christmas movie – this is gonna sound kind of goofy, but one of them is definitely Annabelle’s Wish, because Randy Travis narrates it. I used to watch that when I was really little with my mom, but I mean, Christmas Vacation is a phenomenal movie. And I always really liked the Santa Clause series with Tim Allen. I always thought those were really good, even the newer ones.”
Audio / Parker McCollum - Christmas Gift As A Kid (AUDIO)
DownloadParker McCollum (favorite Christmas gift as a kid) OC: …son of a gun. :18
“It would be a Browning 270 Deer rifle I got when I was 13? So, I wanted it so bad, and I’d always had to use my older brothers’ or my Dad’s gun, you know? They wouldn’t even let me shoot anything then. So, I was probably 11 or 12 years old and a Browning 270 Deer rifle…bad son of a gun.”
Both Maddie and Tae have their favorite Christmas movies, and they are planning a Christmas movie night sometime soon, so Tae can see one of Maddie’s favorites. MADDIE: “Favorite Christmas movie? I know Tae’s.” TAE: “What?” MADDIE: “Polar Express!” TAE: “I do love me some Polar Express. Every time the kids do the duet, my heart breaks.” MADDIE: “I would say my favorite Christmas movie – I love Polar Express. I love Arthur Christmas.” TAE: “Arthur Christmas is great. People sleep on that one.” MADDIE: “And The Holiday! Ahhhhhh.” TAE: “I’ve never seen that one.” MADDIE: “Jude Law-It’s a rom-com, but it’s so heartwarming.” TAE: “Christmas movie night.” MADDIE: “YES!”
Audio / Maddie & Tae - Christmas Movie (AUDIO)
DownloadMaddie & Tae (favorite Christmas movies) OC: …YES! :24
MADDIE: “Favorite Christmas movie? I know Tae’s.” TAE: “What?” MADDIE: “Polar Express!” TAE: “I do love me some Polar Express. Every time the kids do the duet, my heart breaks.” MADDIE: “I would say my favorite Christmas movie – I love Polar Express. I love Arthur Christmas.” TAE: “Arthur Christmas is great. People sleep on that one.” MADDIE: “And The Holiday! Ahhhhhh.” TAE: “I’ve never seen that one.” MADDIE: “Jude Law-It’s a rom-com, but it’s so heartwarming.” TAE: “Christmas movie night.” MADDIE: “YES!”
Audio / Maddie & Tae - Christmas Movie Character (AUDIO)
DownloadMaddie & Tae (Christmas movie character) OC: (Tae) …it’s so you. (both laugh) :28
MADDIE: “If we could be any movie character, who would we be? I think I would want to be a part of Clark Griswold’s vibe. Like, he’s so funny. I don’t know. I’d want to be Clark Griswold’s wife ‘cause I feel like Jonah is Clark Griswold, and that would be really funny, and she just allows his Christmas chaos happen and just embraces it.” TAE: “And you would totally do the fork thing where ‘Oh, this is so yummy.’ (laughs) It’s so you.” (both laugh)
Audio / Maddie & Tae - Christmas Traditions (AUDIO)
DownloadMaddie & Tae (Maddie’s Christmas traditions) OC: …White Elephant. :31
“We always get a real tree every year, because Jonah’s a stickler for a real tree thing. We always shave off a little part of the bottom of the tree and make an ornament out of the little thing, so we’ll put the year on all of them and collect them. We’ve actually just started collecting nutcrackers, which is super weird, but we name them all. Oh, and White Elephant. We play White Elephant on the Font side of things, and I always end up with the best gift somehow, because Jonah and I tag team White Elephant.”
Audio / Maddie & Tae - Taylor's Family Christmas (AUDIO)
DownloadMaddie & Tae (Taylor’s Family Christmas) OC: …the fun stuff. 1:01
“My family has always done Christmas to the nines. My dad is a very big Christmas decorator. He would have the entire house decorated. We had this like life-sized, giant nutcracker, and at one point, we had like a talking Santa at our front door that my dad would talk through. But the decorations were always just like so much fun, really got us all in the Christmas spirit. And every Christmas, one of our traditions was the kids – me and my two brothers – we would all stay in the same room on Christmas Eve and then we’d wake up when it was time to wake up, and we’d go down the stairs my parents would have a sheet at the bottom of the stairs so we couldn’t see all the presents; not that we weren’t going to see them in two seconds, but to them it was just the magic of the big reveal, them showing us all the gifts that Santa had gotten us. I’m just so thankful that my parents really kept that magic alive. And for me, I’m already thinking about Elf on the Shelf. I’m going to do all of the fun stuff.”
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Audio / LINER AJ (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Billy Currington (Happy Holiday Season)
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Audio / LINER Brad Paisley (Seasons Greetings)
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Audio / LINER Brad Paisley (Happy Holidays)
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Audio / LINER Brad Paisley (Happy Holidays) 2
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Audio / LINER Brad Paisley (12 Days of Christmas would include)
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Audio / LINER Brad Paisley (Penguin James Penguin)
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Audio / LINER Brenda Lee (Seasons Greetings)
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Audio / LINER Brenda Lee (Merry Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Brenda Lee (Here's Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree)
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Audio / LINER Brothers Osborne (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Carrie Underwood (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Carrie Underwood (Christmas) 2
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Audio / LINER Carrie Underwood (Seasons Greetings)
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Audio / LINER Catie Offerman (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Catie Offerman (Christmas) 2
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Audio / LINER Catie Offerman (Happy Holidays)
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Audio / LINER Caylee Hammack (Christmas) 2
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Audio / LINER Caylee Hammack (Happy Holidays)
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Audio / LINER Dalton Dover (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Dalton Dover (Christmas) 2
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Audio / LINER Dalton Dover (Season's Greetings)
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Audio / LINER Darius Rucker (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Dierks Bentley (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Dierks Bentley (Happy Holidays)
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Audio / LINER Eric Church (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER George Strait (Happy Holidays)
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Audio / LINER Hootie & The Blowfish (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Jon Pardi (Merry Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Jon Pardi (Season’s Greetings)
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Audio / LINER Jon Pardi (Merry Christmas) 2
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Audio / LINER Jordan Davis (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Jordan Davis (Happy Holidays)
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Audio / LINER Josh Ross (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Josh Ross (Season’s Greetings)
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Audio / LINER Josh Turner (Happy Holidays)
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Audio / LINER Josh Turner (Seasons Greetings)
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Audio / LINER Josh Turner (Merry Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Josh Turner (Happy Holidays) 2
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Audio / LINER Josh Turner (Holidays)
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Audio / LINER Josh Turner (Christmas sweater)
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Audio / LINER Kacey Musgraves (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Kassi Ashton (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Keith Urban (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Keith Urban (Holiday season)
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Audio / LINER LBT (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER LBT (Very Merry Christmas)
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Audio / LINER LBT (Happy Holidays)
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Audio / LINER Luke Bryan (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Luke Bryan (Happy Holidays)
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Audio / LINER Luke Bryan (Season's Greetings)
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Audio / LINER Luke Bryan (eggnog)
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Audio / LINER Luke Bryan (gifts of the season)
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Audio / LINER Maddie & Tae (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Maddie & Tae (Happy Holidays)
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Audio / LINER Mickey Guyton (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Parker McCollum (Happy Holidays)
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Audio / LINER Priscilla Block (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Reba McEntire (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Reba McEntire (Happy Holidays)
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Audio / LINER Sam Hunt (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Sam Hunt (Happy Holidays)
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Audio / LINER Shania Twain (Christmas)
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Audio / LINER Taylor Swift (Happy Holiday Season)
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Audio / LINER Tucker Wetmore Merry Christmas
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Audio / LINER Tyler Hubbard (Christmas) 1
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Audio / LINER Tyler Hubbard (Christmas) 2
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