title: A Traditional Christmas
text: # A Traditional Christmas
  
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  A Traditional Christmas is a Christmas album by country music artist Joe Nichols. It was released in 2004 on Show Dog-Universal Music. The record is Nichols' first album of Christmas music, and was also his second release in the year 2004. It consists of ten renditions of traditional Christmas tunes.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Lisa Cochran - background vocals
  * Shannon Forrest - drums
  * Wes Hightower - background vocals
  * Jim Hoke - accordion, autoharp, clarinet, harmonica, recorder, soprano saxophone, tin whistle
  * David Hungate - upright bass
  * Gordon Mote - organ, piano, synthesizer
  * Joe Nichols - lead vocals
  * Brent Rowan - electric guitar, keyboards
  * Bryan Sutton - acoustic guitar, hi-string guitar, soloist
  
  ## Chart performance
  
  | Chart (2004) | Peak position |
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  | U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 47 |
  | U.S. Billboard Top Holiday Albums | 19 |
  