Biography

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Artist: MANDY BARNETT
Title: WINTER WONDERLAND

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Artist: Mandy Barnett Title: WINTER WONDERLAND Label: Rounder

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Artist: Mandy Barnett
Title: WINTER WONDERLAND
Produced by Mandy Barnett
Executive Producer: Suzanne Kessler

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TRAY CARD
Track Titles in sequence

1. Winter Wonderland 2:19
2. This Time Of The Year 2:25
3. Marshmallow World 2:29
4. A Holly Jolly Christmas 2:11
5. I’ll Be Home For Christmas 4:36
6. Here Comes Santa Claus 2:00
7. All I Want For Christmas Is You 3:55
8. (There’s No Place Like Home) For The Holidays 3:22
9. White Christmas 2:17
10. Jingle Bell Rock 2:06
11. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! 1:55
12. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 3:26

Produced by Mandy Barnett
Executive Producer: Suzanne Kessler

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INSIDE SPREAD (TRACKS)

Winter Wonderland
by Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith (WB Music Corp., ASCAP)

This Time Of The Year
by Brook Benton and Cliff Owens (Vanessa Music Corporation, ASCAP)

Marshmallow World
by Peter De Rose and Carl Sigman (Music Sales Corp., ASCAP – Shapiro Bernstein & Co. Inc., ASCAP)

A Holly Jolly Christmas
by John Marks (St. Nicholas Music Inc., ASCAP)

I’ll Be Home For Christmas
by Kim Gannon, Walter Kent and Buck Ram (Gannon and Kent Music Co., ASCAP – Piedmont Music Company c/o Carlin America, ASCAP)

Here Comes Santa Claus
by Gene Autry and Oakley Haldeman (Gene Autry’s Western Music Publishing Co., ASCAP – Warner Bros. Inc., ASCAP)

All I Want For Christmas Is You
by Troy Powers and Andy Stone (Songs of Delta Boy Music Co., ASCAP – Songs of Peer Ltd., ASCAP)

(There’s No Place Like) Home For The Holidays
by Robert Allen and Al Stillman (Charlie Deitcher Productions Inc., ASCAP – Music Sales Corp., ASCAP)

White Christmas
by Irving Berlin (Irving Berlin Music Corp., ASCAP)

Jingle Bell Rock
by Joseph Carlton Beale and James Ross Boothe (Anne Rachel Music Corp. c/o Warner Chappell Music, ASCAP)

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne (Cahn Music Company c/o WB Music Corp., ASCAP – Producers Music Publishing Co. Inc. c/o Chappell & Co. Inc., ASCAP)

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin (EMI Feist Catalog Inc., ASCAP)


Produced by Mandy Barnett
Executive Producer: Suzanne Kessler


Musicians:
Brad Albin – upright bass
Harold Bradley – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, tic tac bass guitar
Gene Chrisman – drums, sleigh bells
Lloyd Green – steel guitar
Hoot Hester – fiddle, mandolin
Bob Mater – drums, sleigh bells
Tony Migliore – piano, electric keyboard, bells
Gary Prim – piano
Andy Reiss – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar, gut string guitar, banjo

Strings:
Pamela Sixfin, Conni Ellisor, Alan Umstead – violins
Jim Grosjean – viola
Carole Rabinowitz – cello
String Arrangements by Tony Migliore

Recorded at Hilltop Recording Studios and SoundShop Recording Studios in Nashville, TN
Engineered and Mixed by Bobby Bradley
Assisted by Brandon Shattuck
Mastered by Benny Quinn at Benny Quinn Mastering in Franklin, TN

Background Vocalists: Louis Nunley, Michael Black, Stephen Hill, and Mandy Barnett
Background Vocal Arrangements by Louis Nunley

Artwork and Design by Gina Binkley for Altar Ego Designs.
Photographs: Gina Binkley


Management: Suzanne Kessler, P.O. Box 158967, Nashville, TN 37215



p 2010 Dame Productions, Inc. Under exclusive license to Rounder Records. All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws.

www.mandybarnett.com



WINTER WONDERLAND -- MANDY BARNETT


For most families, Christmas is all about traditions, and the music of this special season is also tried-and-true. Perhaps nobody understands that better than the people who make their music in Nashville, Tennessee.

Holiday standards such as “Jingle Bell Rock,” “Marshmallow World” and “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” were all first recorded in Nashville studios, and perennial favorites such as “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Here Comes Santa Claus” are all strongly identified with country-music singers. The heyday of Music City’s holiday record making was the so-called Nashville Sound era of the 1960s. This is when enduring Christmas recordings by Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, Elvis Presley, Kitty Wells, Eddy Arnold, Chet Atkins, Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins and Johnny Cash were created.

Acclaimed vocalist Mandy Barnett recaptures that golden era with Winter Wonderland. The Tennessee native chose both the album’s repertoire and its musical cast with exactly that goal in mind.

“It is my favorite time of music,” says Mandy. “I’m a big fan of Brenda Lee, Patsy Cline, [producer] Owen Bradley, Elvis Presley, Burl Ives, Perry Como and that whole era. So I really wanted to make a Nashville Sound Christmas record. And I wanted to have some of the ‘old school’ musicians on it, because nobody plays the standards like these guys do.

“It’s just me and a good group of guys I’ve known forever and can really communicate with. We’re all good friends.”

Such Nashville Sound veterans as Harold Bradley, Lloyd Green, Louis Nunley, Gene Chrisman and Tony Migliore participated in Mandy’s Winter Wonderland recording sessions. As important as their contributions are, it is the lustrous voice of Mandy Barnett that makes this collection an instant classic. The textures and tones in her delivery range from the blues-tinged “All I Want for Christmas Is You” to the lightly bopping “Jingle Bell Rock,” from the alto range of “This Time of the Year” to the sunny soprano of “Winter Wonderland.”

Mandy Barnett is one of the most critically applauded vocal stylists in Nashville today. She has been recording since the age of 9 and was a regular performer at Dollywood in East Tennessee before she reached her teens. As a teenager, she dazzled audiences as the star of the stage musical Always… Patsy Cline. Since then, her albums have been praised in the pages of Rolling Stone, People, Newsweek and many other national publications. In addition to her own CDs, she has been featured on a number of film soundtracks, including Space Cowboys, Traveller, Election, A Walk on the Moon, Drop Dead Gorgeous and Crazy.

But none of these projects have brought her as much joy as Winter Wonderland.

“These songs make me happy at Christmas,” says Mandy Barnett, “even the sad ones like ‘I’ll Be Home for Christmas’ or ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.’ I want people to listen to this and eat, drink and be merry.”

 Robert K. Oermann
 Nashville, TN