””’The Johnny Cash Family Christmas””’ is the 41st overall and second [[Christmas]] album by [[country music|country]] singer [[Johnny Cash]], released on [[Columbia Records]] in 1972. It is his second Christmas album, the first one being the 1963 release entitled ”[[The Christmas Spirit]]”. The album includes less original Cash material than its predecessor and contains narrations and dialogue featuring his family and friends, between tracks. In all, three songs were written or co-written by Cash, while two, “Christmas as I Knew It” and “[[Silent Night (song)|Silent Night]]”, had been featured on ”The Christmas Spirit” (“Silent Night” would, in fact, be featured on all four Johnny Cash Christmas albums). [[June Carter Cash]], [[Marshall Grant]], [[Tommy Cash]], [[Harold Reid]], [[Larry Butler (producer)|Larry Butler]] (who was both Cash’s piano player and record producer at this time), [[Maybelle Carter]], [[Anita Carter]], [[Carl Perkins]] and [[Lew DeWitt]] are among those featured on the album.
””’The Johnny Cash Family Christmas””’ is the 41st overall and [[Christmas album by [[country music|country]] singer [[Johnny Cash]], released on [[Columbia Records]] in 1972. It is his second Christmas album, the first one being the 1963 release entitled ”[[The Christmas Spirit]]”. The album includes less original Cash material than its predecessor and contains narrations and dialogue featuring his family and friends, between tracks. In all, three songs were written or co-written by Cash, while two, “Christmas as I Knew It” and “[[Silent Night (song)|Silent Night]]”, had been featured on ”The Christmas Spirit” (“Silent Night” would, in fact, be featured on all four Johnny Cash Christmas albums). [[June Carter Cash]], [[Marshall Grant]], [[Tommy Cash]], [[Harold Reid]], [[Larry Butler (producer)|Larry Butler]] (who was both Cash’s piano player and record producer at this time), [[Maybelle Carter]], [[Anita Carter]], [[Carl Perkins]] and [[Lew DeWitt]] are among those featured on the album.
