Merry Christmas Strait to You! explained

Merry Christmas Strait to You!
Type:	Studio
Artist:	George Strait
Cover:	merrycstrait.jpg
Studio:	Sound Stage Studios (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre:	Country, Christmas
Label:	MCA
Prev Title:	7
Prev Year:	1986
Next Title:	Ocean Front Property
Next Year:	1987

Merry Christmas Strait to You! is the first Christmas album by American country music artist George Strait, released on September 8, 1986 by MCA Records. It reached #17 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and is certified double platinum by the RIAA.

Personnel

• George Strait – lead vocals
• John Barlow Jarvis – acoustic piano
• Billy Joe Walker Jr. – acoustic guitars
• Larry Byrom – electric guitars
• Reggie Young – electric guitar
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• David Hungate – bass guitar
• Eddie Bayers – drums
• Johnny Gimble – fiddle
• Curtis Young – backing vocals

Production

• Jimmy Bowen – producer
• George Strait – producer
• Bob Bullock – recording, overdub recording, mixing
• Steve Tillisch – overdub recording
• Mark J. Coddington – second engineer
• Tim Kish – second engineer
• Russ Martin – second engineer
• Glenn Meadows – mastering at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Simon Levy – art direction
• Tal Howard – design
• Mike Drake – illustration
• Peter Nash – photography
• Erv Woolsey – management