The Sweetest Gift (Trisha Yearwood album)
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| Studio album by Trisha Yearwood | ||||
| Released | September 13, 1994 | |||
| Recorded | 1994 | |||
| Genre | Christmas | |||
| Length | 32:32 | |||
| Label | MCA Nashville | |||
| Producer | Garth Fundis | |||
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2000 re-release
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| Allmusic |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | (favorable) |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
The Sweetest Gift is the fourth studio album (and first Christmas album) by country singer Trisha Yearwood.
Yearwood sings a mixture of familiar traditional and popular material, along with more recent compositions such as "It Wasn't His Child" and "There's a New Kid in Town". Two of its tracks managed to achieve positions near the lower end of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart: "It Wasn't His Child" peaked at #60, and "Reindeer Boogie" at #63. The album rose to the #17 position in the Country Albums chart. A re-release of the album in 2000 has a different album cover, a promotional photograph taken during the Real Live Woman promotional period.
Yearwood covers a series of Christmas standards in a country music format. The album was a given a positive review by Allmusic, receiving 4 out of 5 stars.
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