Jessica Simpson Happy Christmas

• My Only Wish
• Here Comes Santa Claus/Santa Claus is Coming to Town
• O Come O Come Emmanuel
• I'll Be Home For Christmas (duet with John Britt)
• Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
• Mary Did You Know
• Merry Christmas Baby (duet with Willie Nelson)
• Kiss Me For Christmas
• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
• Carol of the Bells

The pop singer-turned-reality-TV-star drops a follow up to her 2004 holiday release Rejoyce: The Christmas Album, which makes two of the seven albums she’s released Christmas-related. This time around, Simpson is working with the producers The-Dream as well as Christopher “Tricky” Stewart. The end result is an album that mixes and matches new songs like “My Only Wish” with pop standards (“Here Comes Santa Claus,” “Merry Christmas, Baby”) and traditional fare like “Carol of the Bells” and “Come O Come Emmanuel.” Willie Nelson guests on “Merry Christmas, Baby,” which is the old blues song popularized by Chuck Brown, Otis Redding and Bruce Springsteen, not the Beach Boys tune.

Abstract by Tony Sclafani