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Chris Young’s ‘Griswald Family Christmas’

Chris Young loves Christmas; in 2016 he released the holiday album It Must be Christmas. Chris shared his holiday plans with us for this year, “My plans this year are…

Chris Young's Griswald Family Christmas
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Chris Young loves Christmas; in 2016 he released the holiday album It Must be Christmas.

Chris shared his holiday plans with us for this year, "My plans this year are just to spend as much time as I possibly can with my family. You know, my niece is growing up so fast and being able to be on the road is amazing, but sometimes I miss some of the stories that I get told from my little sister about things she’s done or things she’s said. She’s just got a really cool personality and getting to hang with my family, I always say that about Thanksgiving and Christmas both, but Christmas time for us is you know everybody hanging at the house."

Young adds, "It’s not like a one-time thing. We all deck out my mom’s yard every year. It looks like the Griswald Family Christmas threw up all over our front yard, but it’s a lot of fun and just a really big time of year for me and my family. So, it’s something that’s really special and I plan on spending a lot of time at home."

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.