Young recently released two new Christmas songs to lead into the tour: \u201cChristmas Ain’t Christmas\u201d and a fresh cover of \u201cSilver Bells.\u201d \u201cChristmas Ain’t Christmas,\u201d co-written by Young with Joel Hutsell, Emma Lee, and Lindsay Rimes, serves as a heartfelt reflection on the people and moments that make the season meaningful. His take on \u201cSilver Bells\u201d incorporates shimmering pedal steel paired with his signature vocal warmth, giving the holiday standard a nostalgic feel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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These releases arrive as Young continues building on the momentum of his tenth studio album, I Didn’t Come Here To Leave<\/em>, framing the new holiday music as part of the broader creative stretch surrounding the album’s rollout and the announcement of his holiday tour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
The It Must Be Christmas \u2014<\/em> An Acoustic Evening<\/em> with Chris Young tour serves as a significant milestone for the multi-platinum artist, aligning new holiday content with a seasonal road run that is intended to showcase more stripped-down performances with some storytelling around the season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source coyotecountrylv.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Young is gearing up for the launch of his first-ever holiday tour, It Must Be Christmas \u2014 An Acoustic Evening with Chris Young, a 15-date run that begins Nov. 20 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The acoustic tour will spotlight a mix of Christmas classics and fan-favorite hits, extending through Dec. 20 in Wallingford, Connecticut, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2167908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[361840,416316],"class_list":["post-2167907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-chris-young","tag-marynn-taylor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Chris-Young-Kicks-Off-First-Holiday-Tour-With-New-Christmas.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167909,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167907\/revisions\/2167909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2167908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}