{"id":1317043,"date":"2019-12-02T05:36:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T12:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1815212"},"modified":"2019-12-02T05:36:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T12:36:56","slug":"how-thomas-rhett-is-making-christmas-merrier-and-brighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/how-thomas-rhett-is-making-christmas-merrier-and-brighter\/","title":{"rendered":"How Thomas Rhett Is Making Christmas Merrier and Brighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:684780?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n36m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Finally, Thomas Rhett is giving his wife Lauren Akins the Christmas gift she\u2019s been asking for for years. <\/p>\n<p>Music.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Rhett has just shared two new songs in time for the holidays: one classic and one original. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Christmas Song\u201d \u2014 or as some call it, \u201cChestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire\u201d \u2014 is Thomas Rhett\u2019s take on Nat King Cole\u2019s hit from the 1940s. And \u201cChristmas In The Country\u201d is one he penned with David Garcia, Ashley Gorley and Christian artist Chris Tomlin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristmas is hands-down my favorite time of year. We have so many Christmas traditions in our family that include a lot of festive music,\u201d he said in a press release, \u201cbut I\u2019ve never recorded anything myself. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLauren has wanted me to make some Christmas music for a long time, so this year felt like the right time to finally take a stab at writing something and to put my own twist on one of the all-time classics.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B5EyxS2BlwB\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe start celebrating Christmas early around here. Hope y\u2019all do too,\u201d he posted over Thanksgiving. \u201c\u2019Christmas In The Country,\u2019 an original &amp; \u2019The Christmas Song\u2019 available everywhere now. Hope these are getting y\u2019all in the spirit,\u201d\u201d he added with holiday-themed emojis.<\/p>\n<p>And from the looks of things, the music has already filled Akins with holiday spirit. She just shared a picture of her husband and their two daughters picking out their perfect Christmas tree. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B5RTfgDhOkK\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\"><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1815212\/how-thomas-rhett-is-making-christmas-merrier-and-brighter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 36m ago Finally, Thomas Rhett is giving his wife Lauren Akins the Christmas gift she\u2019s been asking for for years. Music. Thomas Rhett has just shared two new songs in time for the holidays: one classic and one original. \u201cThe Christmas Song\u201d \u2014 or as some call it, \u201cChestnuts Roasting on an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1317043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 14:10:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}