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Gold and Green |  | Artist: Sugarland
Label: UMG Nashville
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 70
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 001332602
UPC: 602527154138
EAN: 0602527154138
ASIN: B002N2XZKU
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | City Of Silver Dreams | | • | Winter Wonderland | | • | Holly Jolly Christmas | | • | Coming Home | | • | Gold And Green | | • | Maybe Baby (New Year's Day) | | • | Nuttin' For Christmas | | • | O Come, O Come, Emmanuel | | • | Little Wood Guitar | | • | Silent Night |
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Album Description
2009 holiday release, the first Christmas album from the Country duo. The 10 songs on the album include classics like 'Holly Jolly Christmas,' 'Winter Wonderland' and several Sugarland originals. Sugarland exploded onto the music scene in '04 with Twice The Speed Of Life. Enjoy the Ride quickly followed in '06. Their third studio album Love On The Inside was released July '08 and skyrocketed them to superstardom, drawing fans from all genres and critics abroad.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 9
 For Sugarland fans November 23, 2009
Carrie LaGree (Albany, NY)
I'm a huge Sugarland fan, and I'm a huge fan of Christmas music. Yes, I really like this album, but it's a little underwhelming. Their takes on the classic are not amazing. I love Jennifer Nettles' voice, and I had high hopes for this album. I truly love about half of it, and I already find myself fast-forwarding through certain tunes. It has some fantastic tracks, but as an album, it falls a little flat for me. Is it worth buying? If you like Christmas music, absolutely! Is it one of my favorite Christmas albums? No, and I hope Sugarland puts out another one soon!
 Refreshing November 20, 2009
Frankie Joey
Just received this album from Sugarland. Love the new songs, the musicality, the blending of the two individual voices. Arrangements are unique, and the vocals are strong. Something new and special. Will listen to these song next Christmas, too!
Sugarland Goodness! November 20, 2009
saviesmom (TN)
Love this album. Let me state up front I hate country music and Christmas music, so this album delivers. I love Comin Home and Winter Wonderland. Probably the only Christmas music to be played in my house this Christmas.
 yee-haw. November 17, 2009
Tokyo Girl (Tokyo, Japan)
0 out of 9 found this review helpful
THought this would be a little better- it's really country-ish.
But if you like country- it's all you!
An instant classic October 24, 2009
A. Gammill (West Point, MS United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you're tired of the same old cover versions of traditional Christmas music, you're not alone. Sugarland must have felt the same way, for this nifty little early Christmas present from country's premiere duo contains as many original holiday-themed compositions as it does reworkings of the expected chestnuts. The pair even puts their signature style on some of the cover versions. For example, it might be hard to picture anyone else singing "Nuttin' for Christmas" after hearing Jennifer Nettles' comically mischievous take on the song.
But it's the 5 original compositions that really separate GOLD AND GREEN from the rest of the holiday pack. "City of Silver Dreams" opens the disc with snowy sweet love letter to New York City, a song that surely deserves a place among the all-time great Christmas tunes. "Coming Home" revisits the theme of the band's first single "Baby Girl" (even going so far as to have the mother in the song ask 'How's my baby girl?'), and it's hard not to see art imitating life when one realizes it was just 5 short years ago that Nettles and Co. burst onto the scene with that slice of life-on-the-road. The title track evokes a sort of country-tinged Carpenters, although even Karen Carpenter never got so choice a line as "The butter light of candlesticks/Chases snowflakes off the bricks." Kristian Bush takes the mic for "Maybe Baby (New Year's Day)", a restless plea to see an old lover during the holidays. While probably the weakest of the original songs here, it's still a fine Steve Earle-style mid-tempo rocker.
And then we come to what is not only the album's best song, it could be the song-writing and performance high point of Sugarland's career to date. "Little Wood Guitar" is as perfect a composition as has come around in many years. While stylistically akin to "Coming Home," the song simply takes flight when Nettles reaches the chorus. And again, it's hard not to see some truth in the story of the rather unassuming Christmas present that had the power to change a person's life.
I guess the real revelation about GOLD AND GREEN is that it does not, for one moment, NOT feel like a Sugarland album. This is no studio-mandated collection of cover songs designed to front-load the retail racks in time for Christmas. It is what it is: A Sugarland Christmas album. Highly recommended.
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