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Thomas Rhett Has An ‘Intense’ Holiday Season

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Thomas Rhett, his wife Lauren, and their four young daughters have the time of their lives when Christmas rolls around each year. Back in 2020, the couple hosted the CMA Country Christmas. It was a show that they filmed without a studio audience because of the pandemic. The guests for that year were Tim McGraw, Darius Rucker, Kelsea Ballerini, Lady A, and more.

Thomas told us recently that his house is always a crazy good time around the holidays. He said, “It is really intense. We watch nothing but Elf 20 times in December and all the Harry Potter movies, and the old-school Rudolph. We get the biggest tree; I mean, sometimes it hits our ceiling and bends.”

He added, “We’re like the Griswold’s [from the National Lampoon Vacation films]. Lauren loves it, and we always have an ugly Christmas sweater party every year. We invite 100 of our friends over, and it’s always a really good time. We love Christmas.”

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Rhett told us not long ago that he has a goal he's set for himself: he wants to write a classic Christmas song. Thomas does have a few Christmas songs out, his cover of “The Christmas Song” and an original he wrote with Chris Tomlinson called “Christmas in the Country,” but he feels those songs aren’t quite classics.

He said, “It’s kind of impossible to write a classic, you know what I’m sayin’? You just kinda hope that it’s cool enough to survive one year, and maybe it’ll get played the next year.”

Rhett added, “I think my dream in life would be to write a classic Christmas song that gets played until my kids are older, but there’s a lot of classics out there that are incredible.”

5 Country Stars Who Can't Get Enough Of Christmas

  • Brett Eldredge

    Brett’s 2016 Christmas album Glow was so popular that he now tours each Christmas and sells out venues nationwide. His nickname is “Mr. Christmas.” He told me not long ago about a Christmas favorite song, “Blue Christmas…Elvis is king, and Elvis knows how to make you feel heartbreak. Also, with this song, he combines both and just the longing to want him to have that person with you, and if you don’t have that person with you, now around Christmas, it won’t be the same. And it’s kind of a country song in the deep depths of it, so I thought it was a perfect song for the album.”

  • Reba

    Reba starts celebrating the Christmas holiday the day after Halloween. She has released three Christmas albums in her career, and in 2021, she even starred in a Lifetime TV movie along with Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider called Christmas In Tune. In a recent interview, Reba told me about what she once got as a teen in Oklahoma for a Christmas gift. She said, “Mama would always give me and Suzy the same gift in different colors. One year, it was an overnight case, like a makeup case. Mine was blue, and Suzy’s was white. Mama kept it for years underneath her vanity.”

  • Kelly Clarkson

    Clarkson has released two Christmas albums. Wrapped In Red came out in 2013 and the second, When Christmas Comes Around, was released in 2021. She also sings Christmas songs throughout December on her talk show. Chris Stapleton, Brett Eldredge, Trisha Yearwood, and Reba have appeared on her Christmas albums.

  • Dolly Parton

    Dolly loves Christmas time and has released three Christmas albums so far. The country icon even has a special night each year for all her nieces and nephews. She told me about their special family event, “They come to my house, and we have cookie night every year. We have for years and years and years. I dress up like Santa Claus, like Grammy Claus. I have an elevator in my house, and I have it painted like a chimney. So I go up and get presents from upstairs, then I come down the chimney in my suit. I just can’t wait to do that with them.”

  • Carrie Underwood

    Carrie released a Christmas album in 2020 and recently released a deluxe version of the project. She even sang Christmas songs in her Las Vegas residency shows in December. I have talked many times with Underwood about her Christmas memories. In one of those interviews, she told me, “We would walk up and down the halls and sing Christmas carols. I mean, we sang, ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,’ we sang ‘Silent Night,’ we sang, just all those songs that everybody knows, and it was just a really cool thing that we did. I really wish we still did it. We quit when my grandma got sick. It’s really easy to forget about people during that time of year ’cause there’s so much going on, and it was a really cool thing that we did. We’d go to the nursing home and bring a little Christmas cheer with us.”

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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