Christmas In Dixie

1982

Alabama

If you're from the South, this one hits home in a warm, pleasant way. Alabama released their homage to Christmas below the Mason-Dixon line back in 1982, and included it on their 1985 Christmas album Alabama Christmas.

It's an awesome little Christmas tune, and it's loaded with true feelings because the members of Alabama are singing about Christmas in the part of the country that they truly love (The named their band after their home state after all.) It's Country through and through,...not a pop movement even in the same state...but being a Christmas song it crossed all genre lines and became a Christmas favorite.

It's found a permanent home on Christmas playlists (Especially on stations in the South) and I have a feeling this is another one that our grandkids will be hearing at Christmas after we're all long gone...

A few others have tried to cover it...but in many minds and hearts there is only one version of this one that counts, and that's the original. And it's even personalized. The last couplet? (And from Fort Payne Alabama...Merry Christmas Tonite...) Fort Payne's the bands hometown.

So enjoy! Alabama's Homage To Christmas In Dixie!