It Won't Be Christmas Without You

It Won't Be Christmas Without You is the first Christmas album by country group Brooks & Dunn released in 2002. Their first album of Christmas music, it features covers of traditional Christmas songs, as well as several newly written tunes. Four of the album's songs — "Hangin' 'Round the Mistletoe", the title track, "Rockin' Little Christmas" and "Winter Wonderland" — received enough airplay to enter the Billboard country music charts, peaking at numbers 47, 41, 57 and 57, respectively.

The album received a 3 star rating from Allmusic, with an unattributed review praising Brooks & Dunn for "wisely foregoing the drippy, synth-laden production that ruins many contemporary country Christmas albums, instead relying on the neo-honky tonk sound that made the duo famous."

Track listing

 * 1) "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) – 3:00
 * 2) "Hangin' 'Round the Mistletoe" (Kostas) – 2:41
 * 3) "It Won't Be Christmas Without You" (Steven Busch, Ronnie Dunn, Jerry Lynn Williams) – 3:43
 * 4) "Rockin' Little Christmas" (Deborah Allen, Bruce Channel) – 3:06
 * 5) "Blue Christmas" (Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson)– 3:29
 * 6) "Santa's Coming Over to Your House" (Kix Brooks, Don Cook) – 2:32
 * 7) "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) – 2:56
 * 8) "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 2:24
 * 9) "Who Says There Ain't No Santa" (Brooks, Larry Boone, Paul Nelson) – 3:41
 * 10) "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram) – 2:42
 * 11) "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – 2:46

Personnel

 * Brooks & Dunn
 * Kix Brooks - lead vocals, background vocals
 * Ronnie Dunn - lead vocals, background vocals


 * Additional Musicians
 * Deborah Allen - background vocals
 * Bekka Bramlett - background vocals
 * David Campbell - string arrangements, conductor
 * Bruce Channel - background vocals
 * Lisa Cochran - background vocals
 * Eric Darken - percussion
 * Dan Dugmore - steel guitar
 * Shannon Forrest - drums
 * Paul Franklin - steel guitar
 * Barry Green - trombone
 * Kenny Greenberg - electric guitar
 * Mike Haynes - trumpet
 * Aubrey Haynie - fiddle, mandolin
 * Jim Horn - baritone saxophone
 * B. James Lowry - acoustic guitar
 * Brent Mason - electric guitar
 * The Nashville String Machine - strings
 * Steve Nathan - keyboards, Hammond organ, piano
 * Steve Patrick - trumpet
 * Michael Rhodes - bass guitar
 * Brent Rowan - electric guitar
 * John Wesley Ryles - background vocals
 * Denis Solee - tenor saxophone
 * Harry Stinson - background vocals