Reba McEntire has a few Christmas albums in her discography. The Country Music Hall Of Famer released her first holiday album, Merry Christmas To You, in 1987, just one year after winning the CMA’s top Entertainer of the Year award in 1986.
Since then, Reba has released her second holiday album, The Secret of Giving, in 1999. The album was followed by an original CBS Television movie, The Secret of Giving, which aired on Thanksgiving night in 1999.
Reba’s third Christmas project, My Kind Of Christmas, was released in 2016. Unlike her previous collections, this album offered stripped-down arrangements of timeless songs featuring Reba and her pianist, Catherine Marx.
In 2013, Kelly Clarkson asked her and Trisha Yearwood to join her on “Silent Night” during her NBC Christmas special. Reba later told us it was her favorite holiday song to sing, “I love ‘Silent Night.’ I love it, mainly because I got to sing it with my two buddies, Kelly Clarkson and Trisha Yearwood.”
Reba has many Christmas memories, but one that stands out in her mind involves her then-young son Shelby, who is now married and in his 30s. She shared. “I’ll never forget one Christmas morning. I woke up, and I was laying on my left side, and I felt something, and I opened up my eyes, and Shelby was three inches away from my face. He said, ‘Mom, you’re not gonna believe what Santy Claus weft for me.’ And so, he said, you’ve got to come here.”
She continued, “I got up out of bed and went in there, and there was this little tractor-trailer set that he had just fallen in love with at the store. He’s seen it and said, ‘I can’t believe he bought this for me.’ He was so cute.”
As we get full swing into the Christmas spirit this week, we wanted to share what we believe are Reba’s five finest Christmas songs to date.
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