{"id":50082,"date":"2025-10-25T16:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/willie-nelson-gets-into-the-holiday-spirit-with-christmas-love-song\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T16:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:57:12","slug":"willie-nelson-gets-into-the-holiday-spirit-with-christmas-love-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/willie-nelson-gets-into-the-holiday-spirit-with-christmas-love-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Nelson Gets Into the Holiday Spirit With &#8216;Christmas Love Song&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>It&#8217;s not even Halloween yet but country legend already doling out Xmas gifts<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLike Mariah Carey, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/willie-nelson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_willie-nelson\" data-tag=\"willie-nelson\">Willie Nelson<\/a> is getting into the holiday spirit before even Halloween as the country legend has shared his festive new ballad \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/christmas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christmas\" data-tag=\"christmas\">Christmas<\/a> Love Song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe tender track finds Nelson working alongside his longtime collaborator and producer Buddy Cannon on a track penned by Country Music Hall of Fame Bill Anderson with Bobby Tomberlin and Marv Green. Harmonica great Mickey Raphael also features on the song.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christmas Love Song\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B6v5LaBhZd8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cIt ain\u2019t a lot but every word of it\u2019s true\/It don\u2019t sparkle or shine\/But it\u2019s one of a kind,\u201d Nelson sings on the track. \u201cAnd I put my whole heart into this Christmas love song to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tNelson has gifted fans with holiday music in Christmases past, most notably his 1979 <em>Pretty Paper<\/em>, his first Christmas LP and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/40-essential-christmas-albums-35316\/willie-nelson-pretty-paper-221403\/\">Number Nine on <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s 40 Essential Christmas Albums list<\/a>. Nelson has also released 1994\u2019s <em>Christmas With Willie Nelson<\/em>, 1997\u2019s <em>Hill Country Christmas<\/em>, and 1995\u2019s <em>Pancho, Lefty, and Rudolph<\/em>, a collaborative Xmas album with Merle Haggard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tNext month, Nelson will honor his late friend Haggard with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/willie-nelson-merle-haggard-new-album-workin-man-1235421533\/\">the tribute album <em>Workin\u2019 Man: Willie Sings Merl<\/em>e<\/a>, featuring 11 new recordings of Haggard classics like \u201cTonight The Bottle Let Me Down,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/why-okie-from-muskogee-was-merle-haggards-contradictory-masterpiece-191078\/\">Okie From Muskogee<\/a>,\u201d \u201cMama Tried,\u201d and \u201cWorkin\u2019 Man Blues.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/willie-nelson-christmas-love-song-1235454373\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not even Halloween yet but country legend already doling out Xmas gifts Like Mariah Carey, Willie Nelson is getting into the holiday spirit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":50083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}