Joy To The World | 
| Artist: Faith Hill
Label: Warner Bros.
Category: Music
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Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 4484
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 511500
UPC: 093624985099
EAN: 0093624985099
ASIN: B0017T267I
Release Date: September 30, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Joy to The World | | • | What Child Is This | | • | Santa Claus is Coming to Town | | • | Little Drummer Boy | | • | O Come All Ye Faithful | | • | Holly Jolly Christmas | | • | Away In A Manger | | • | O Holy Night | | • | Winter Wonderland | | • | Silent Night | | • | A Baby Changes Everything |
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Product Description
The first holiday album from super-star Faith Hill, 'Joy To The World' is a joy to behold, featuring beautiful new versions of ten traditional and modern classics, complete with horns, strings, woodwings, percussion and chorales, much like the big-band orchestras of the 40's and 50's. One of the most popular music stars in America, Faith Hill celebrates the joy-and faith- of the season with 'Joy to the World.'
Album Description
The 2008 release of the first holiday album from super-star Faith Hill, "Joy To The World" is a joy to behold, featuring beautiful new versions of ten traditional and modern classics, complete with horns, strings, woodwings, percussion and chorales, much like the big-band orchestras of the 40's and 50's. One of the most popular music stars in America, Faith Hill celebrates the joy-and faith- of the season with "Joy to the World."
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 80
 "tis the season for Faith October 1, 2008
Amanda Richards (Georgetown, Guyana)
43 out of 46 found this review helpful
Seems like Christmas starts earlier and earlier every year, and this year the new albums have already started coming out. "Country" and "Christmas" have always gone hand in hand, and this is Faith Hill's very first album of Christmas music.
There are ten traditional carols, plus the single "A Baby Changes Everything", and the album has a big band sound that will remind you of those old black and white holiday movies that they dig out every single year.
"A Baby Changes Everything" puts the Christmas story in a modern light, beginning:
"Teenage girl, much too young / Unprepared for what's to come / A baby changes everything"
and ending:
"My whole life is turned around / I was lost and now I'm found / A baby changes everything"
I found that on a couple of the tracks Faith out-sang the backing orchestra, but the following songs are the ones to put on your playlist this season:
Joy to the World
What Child is This?
Little Drummer Boy
Away in a Manger
O Holy Night
Winter Wonderland
A Baby Changes Everything
Thanks Faith, for not changing up the traditional carols and making them unrecognizable, and although the big band sound isn't my thing, this is a warm and fuzzy album to add to your playlist. Recommended for fans of old movies, big bands, and traditional carols.
Rated: 4.5 stars
Amanda Richards, October 1, 2008
WOW is all i can say... October 1, 2008
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
This is the most amazing christmas album I have ever head. seriously, this is a must for the Holidays! form the booming orchestra in the title track Joy to the world to the soulfullness of O Holy Night to the beautifull story in A Baby Changes everything about the Virgin Mary.
Faith at her best November 22, 2008
Andy in Washington (Washougal, WA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
If you like powerful alto vocals, Faith Hill is your girl. The album is full of very traditional arrangements of Christmas carols. If you are looking for something that breaks new ground, is trendy, or somehow different from all the other Christmas albums, this is not your album.
If you are looking for an album of very impressive vocals, minimal accompaniment, and traditional arrangements, this is one of the best.
Her version of O Holy Night! is one of the only versions I have ever heard that can stand next to Celine Dion's classic rendition. Faith has the voice to carry off this song, something few singers can accomplish.
I usually have Christmas carols playing throughout my house for most of December (yes, I know- sick). There are well over 100 albums that randomly rotate. This is one of the few albums (along with Brian Setzer's) that visitors have regularly asked about.
Glad I bought it
Joyous and Joyful October 4, 2008
Patricia Weslowski (Newton, MA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have now listened to this album over 10 times and each time it gets better. She wraps her incredible voice around 10 Christmas classics, many of my favorites, plus one absolutely beautiful new song that reminds us what Christmas is all about. The background orchestra and choir give the album a robust and big band era sound that is very nostalgic for me as I'm sure it will be for others. This is a wonderful, joyous, and joyful album by a very talented vocalist. I hope others enjoy it as much as I do.
A Superb Christmas Album October 1, 2008
Country Music Fan (Phoenix, AZ USA)
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
It was a long wait. But after listening to it, I found myself in the spirit of Christmas, even if it is a few months early. Each song is special. I have every single Faith Hill album; and once again, I am not disappointed. Faith has a fabulous voice. If she sang the ingredients list on a box of cookies, I would enjoy it. For those of you who do not have any Faith Hill albums because, perhaps, you are not a country music fan, why not give this a listen? You can listen to the samples right here on Amazon.
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