This Christmas Time

This Christmas Time is the fourth studio album and first Christmas album by the American country music group Lonestar. Their first Christmas album, it was released in 2000 on BNA Records. Most of the tracks are renditions of traditional Christmas material, with three newly written tracks — the title track, "If Every Day Could Be Christmas", and "Reason for the Season".

This Christmas Time
Studio album by Lonestar
Released	September 12, 2000 (2000-09-12)
Studio	Emerald Entertainment (Nashville, Tennessee); Sound Kitchen and Studio Works Productions (Franklin, Tennessee).
Genre	Country Christmas
Length	44:04
Label	BNA
Producer	Dann Huff
Lonestar chronology
Lonely Grill (1999) This Christmas Time (2000) I'm Already There (2001)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town"	John Frederick Coots Haven Gillespie	4:11
2.	"Please Come Home for Christmas"	Charles Brown Gene Redd	2:48
3.	"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"	Ralph Blane Hugh Martin	4:22
4.	"If Every Day Could Be Christmas"	Anthony Little Gary Baker Frank J. Myers	4:34
5.	"The Little Drummer Boy"	Katherine Kennicott Davis Harry Simeone Henry Onorati	4:38
6.	"O Holy Night"	Adolphe Adam John Sullivan Dwight	4:52
7.	"Reason for the Season"	Larry Boone Paul Nelson Richie McDonald	4:01
8.	"What Child Is This?"	William Chatterton Dix	3:14
9.	"Winter Wonderland"	Felix Bernard Richard B. Smith	3:18
10.	"The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)"	Mel Tormé Robert Wells	4:07
11.	"This Christmas Time"	Marv Green Dean Sams	3:51
Total length:			43:56

Personnel

Lonestar

• Richie McDonald – lead vocals, keyboards, acoustic guitar
• Dean Sams – keyboards, acoustic piano, acoustic guitar, harmonica, backing vocals
• Michael Britt – acoustic guitar, electric guitars, backing vocals
• Keech Rainwater – drums, percussion

Additional Musicians

• Tim Akers – keyboards, acoustic piano
• Matt Rollings – keyboards, acoustic piano
• Dann Huff – electric guitars
• Larry Beaird – acoustic guitar, steel guitar
• Biff Watson – acoustic guitar, bouzouki
• Bruce Bouton – steel guitar
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
• Paul Leim – drums
• Eric Darken – percussion
• Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
• Jonathan Yudkin – cello, fiddle, mandolin
• Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson – harmonica
• Robbie Cheuvront – backing vocals
• Glen M. Childress – backing vocals
• Lisa Cochran – backing vocals
• Vicki Hampton – backing vocals
• Gene Miller – backing vocals
• Russell Terrell – backing vocals

Production

• Dann Huff – producer
• Jeff Balding – recording, mixing
• Eric Bickel – recording assistant, mix assistant
• Jed Hackett – recording assistant, mix assistant
• Mark Hagen – recording assistant, mix assistant, additional recording
• Bart Pursley – additional recording
• Shawn Simpson – digital editing
• Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)
• Robert Hadley – mastering assistant
• Mike "Frog" Griffith – production coordinator
• Norman Jean Roy – photography
• Michelle Vanderpool – hair, make-up
• Ann Waters – stylist

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2000) Peak position US Billboard 200[2] 95 US Christian Albums (Billboard)[3] 3 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[4] 11 US Top Holiday Albums (Billboard)[5] 6

Year-end charts Chart (2001) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[6] 57