Brand New Year Explained

Brand New Year
Type:	Studio
Artist:	SHeDAISY
Cover:	Brandnewyear.jpg
Released:	September 26, 2000
Recorded:	1999–2000
Genre:	Country
Label:	Lyric Street
Producer:	Dann Huff
Prev Title:	The Whole SHeBANG
Prev Year:	1999
Next Year:	2001

Brand New Year is the second studio album and the first Christmas album from country music trio SHeDAISY; it was released September 26, 2000. The renditions of "Deck the Halls" and "Jingle Bells" both charted on the Billboard country charts in 2000, peaking at No. 37 and No. 44, respectively. It's best known for "Deck the Halls" appearing on Disney's 1999 Christmas film Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas.

Track listing

1. "Deck the Halls" (traditional) – 3:50
2. "Santa's Got a Brand New Bag" (Kristyn Osborn, Jason Deere) – 3:08
3. "That's What I Want for Christmas" (Earl E. Lawrence) – 3:18
4. "Jingle Bells" (J.S. Pierpoint) – 3:57
5. "A Really, Really Merry Scary Intro" – 0:21
6. "Tinseltown" (Tim Nichols, Connie Harrington, Osborn) – 3:54
7. "Sleigh Ride" (Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish) – 3:15
8. "What Child Is This?" (traditional) – 4:20
9. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/Carol of the Bells" (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley, traditional) – 4:07
   • featuring tobymac
10. "The Secret of Christmas" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 4:08
11. "Christmas Children" (Leslie Bricusse) – 3:50
12. "Twist of the Magi" (Marcus Hummon, Osborn) – 4:27
    • featuring Rascal Flatts
13. "Brand New Year (My Revolution)" (Richard Marx, Osborn) – 4:20 (9:27 overall)
    • [Silence] – 3:00
    • "How Can I Keep from Singing?" – 2:07
14. [Silence] hidden track – 0:04

Personnel

• Tim Akers – keyboards
• Jeff Balding – Engineer, Mixing
• Steve Brewster – drums
• John Catchings – cello
• Eric Darken – percussion
• David Davidson – violin
• Mark Douthit – saxophone
• Connie Ellisor – violin
• Carl Gorodetzky – violin, string contractor
• Jim Grosjean – viola
• Jed Hackett – assistant engineer, mixing
• Robert Hadley – mastering
• Mark Hagen – assistant engineer, mixing, mixing assistant
• Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
• Dann Huff – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, conductor, producer, engineer, string arrangements, mixing
• Jack Jezioro – bass guitar
• Gordon Kennedy – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Anthony LaMarchina – cello
• Lee Larrison – violin
• James Lowry – acoustic guitar
• Jerry McPherson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bouzouki
• Kassidy Osborn – background vocals
• Kelsi Osborn – lead vocals
• Kristyn Osborn – background vocals
• Doug Sax – mastering
• Pamela Sixfin – violin
• Bobby G. Taylor – oboe
• George Tidwell – trumpet
• Alan Umstead – violin
• Catherine Umstead – violin
• Gary VanOsdale – viola
• Mary Kathryn Vanosdale – violin
• Kristin Wilkinson – viola
• Glenn Worf – bass guitar
• Jonathan Yudkin – fiddle, mandolin

Charts

Year-end charts

Notes and References

1. Web site: Top Country Albums – Year-End 2001. Billboard. October 21, 2020.