
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.