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The 2023 ‘CMA Country Christmas’ Song List

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

The CMA has released a performance log of the upcoming CMA Country Christmas, which will be airing Thursday, December 14, at 8 PM ET on ABC and the next day on Hulu and Disney+.

  • Amy Grant and Trisha Yearwood will co-host the show and perform “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” accompanied by Lindsey Stirling for “Joy to the World.” Grant also takes the stage to perform “Grown Up Christmas List” and Yearwood performs “O Holy Night” with Stirling
  • Jordan Davis will perform “O Come All Ye Faithful.”
  • Lady A will sing “What Christmas Means to Me.”
  • Ashley McBryde will join Lindsey Stirling for “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.”
  • Jon Pardi will perform a song called “Beer for Santa” from his 2023 Christmas album.
  • The War And Treaty will sing “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home).”
  • Zach Williams and Lainey Wilson are performing “Go Tell It On The Mountain.”

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Lainey told us about her first performance on the CMA Country Christmas, “Yeah, so I got to do ‘Go Tell It On The Mountian’ with Zach Williams; I’m a big fan of Zach Wiliams. We met the day we actually recorded the song, and we hit it off immediately. He’s just a good dude.”

Wilson is no stranger to the classic song. She said, “I grew up singing that song. I remember singing ‘Go Tell It On The Mountain’ at a church special at Baskin Baptist church. I think it was the same night that I got the words wrong to ‘Silent Night’ and ran off the stage crying.”

She laughed, “So, I was trying to redeem myself with this one, you know?”

CMA Country Christmas is a production of the Country Music Association. The CMA partnered with Balsam Hill, who provided their realistic artificial Christmas trees and holiday décor to decorate the CMA Country Christmas stage again this year.

CMA Country Christmas began in 2010 and rings in the holiday season annually with a show full of festive classics and one-of-a-kind musical performances. The event is filmed in Nashville and airs each holiday season on ABC. ABC is the network home to the CMA Awards and CMA’s summer concert TV special “CMA Fest.”

5 Country Songs That Will Make You Want To Go Shopping

  • Chris Janson "Buy Me A Boat" (2015)

    We’re not sure how many people will be getting boats for Christmas this year as it’s a really pricey gift. However, this song made Janson a country music star, and many country fans bought that boat… or at least hoped to. The lyrics of the chorus include, “But it could buy me a boat / It could buy me a truck to pull it / It could buy me a Yeti 110 iced down with some silver bullets / Yeah, and I know what they say, money can’t buy everything / Well, maybe so / But it could buy me a boat.”

  • Sam Hunt's "Walmart" (2023)

    Sam released this song in February of this year, and while it’s not really about shopping, it’s about a place that most of us will be visiting to do our holiday shopping. In the song, Sam transports the listener to a small-town run-in with an ex’s mother. The cover of the single release featured a Walmart shopping cart sitting in the parking lot of a store.

  • Ernest with Morgan Wallen "Flower Shops" (2022)

    This sweet song talks about shopping for flowers after love has gone wrong. The lyrics include, “Mister, I’ll take your roses / If you cut off the thorns, she can’t take no more / I’ll buy violets and daisies to hide all the crazy, it’s gonna take all you’ve got / Aw, it’s a bad day for love, but a good day for flower shops.” When Ernest made his Grand Ole Opry debut in January of 2022, Morgan joined him in a surprise appearance to sing this one.

  • Carrie Underwood's "Stretchy Pants" (2021)

    Carrie released this fun song at Thanksgiving, talking about eating all she could and putting on stretchy pants. The video for the song, in cartoon form, has all kinds of Christmas cheer. It makes you want to go to the store immediately to buy some yoga pants and sweats. We can all relate to one line in the song: “Ask me where I got ’em, Amazon at my door / And if I wear this pair out, I’m gonna buy me some more.”

  • Dolly Parton's “The Bargain Store” (1975)

    In this classic Dolly song, she sings of “The Bargain Store.” Dolly told Vulture in a recent interview that “nobody played it on the radio [when it was released] because they were acting like I was implying something else.” The lyrics include, “I may have just what you’re looking for / If you don’t mind the fact that all the merchandise is used / But with a little mending, it could be as good as new / The bargain store is open, come inside.” Parton says that in the song, she was saying, “Come inside my heart.” She noted that she is talking about a broken heart and how we can put the pieces back together if we’re willing to try.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.

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