It Won't Be Christmas Without You
# It Won't Be Christmas Without You

It Won't Be Christmas Without You is the first Christmas music album by country group Brooks & Dunn released in 2002. Their first album of Christmas music, it features covers of traditional Christmas songs, as well as several newly written tunes. Four of the album's songs — "Hangin' 'Round the Mistletoe", the title track, "Rockin' Little Christmas" and "Winter Wonderland" — received enough airplay to enter the Billboard country music charts, peaking at numbers 47, 41, 57 and 57, respectively.

The album received a 3 star rating from Allmusic, with an unattributed review praising Brooks & Dunn for "wisely foregoing the drippy, synth-laden production that ruins many contemporary country Christmas albums, instead relying on the neo-honky tonk sound that made the duo famous."

## Track listing

* "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) – 3:00
* "Hangin' 'Round the Mistletoe" (Kostas) – 2:41
* "It Won't Be Christmas Without You" (Steven Busch, Ronnie Dunn, Jerry Lynn Williams) – 3:43
* "Rockin' Little Christmas" (Deborah Allen, Bruce Channel) – 3:06
* "Blue Christmas" (Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson)– 3:29
* "Santa's Coming Over to Your House" (Kix Brooks, Don Cook) – 2:32
* "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) – 2:56
* "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 2:24
* "Who Says There Ain't No Santa" (Brooks, Larry Boone, Paul Nelson) – 3:41
* "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram) – 2:42
* "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 2:46

## Personnel

### Brooks & Dunn

* Kix Brooks - lead vocals, background vocals
* Ronnie Dunn - lead vocals, background vocals

### Additional Musicians

* Deborah Allen - background vocals
* Bekka Bramlett - background vocals
* David Campbell - string arrangements, conductor
* Bruce Channel - background vocals
* Lisa Cochran - background vocals
* Eric Darken - percussion
* Dan Dugmore - steel guitar
* Shannon Forrest - drums
* Paul Franklin - steel guitar
* Barry Green - trombone
* Kenny Greenberg - electric guitar
* Mike Haynes - trumpet
* Aubrey Haynie - fiddle, mandolin
* Jim Horn - baritone saxophone
* B. James Lowry - acoustic guitar
* Brent Mason - electric guitar
* The Nashville String Machine - strings
* Steve Nathan - keyboards, Hammond organ, piano
* Steve Patrick - trumpet
* Michael Rhodes - bass guitar
* Brent Rowan - electric guitar
* John Wesley Ryles - background vocals
* Denis Solee - tenor saxophone
* Harry Stinson - background vocals
