Hallelujah He Is Born

Performer: Sawyer Brown
Engineer: Steve Lowery
Producer: Mac McAnally; Mark Miller
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology. Personnel: Duncan Cameron (vocals, guitar); Gregg Hubbard (vocals, keyboards); Butch Myers, Mark Miller , Scotty Emerick, Jimmy Myers (vocals); Joe "Curley" Smyth (percussion); Robert Bailey, Jr. , Lisa Cochran, Vicki Hampton (background vocals). Recording information: GBT; Groucho's Studio; LaLa Land; Wedgewood Sound. Photographer: Dean Dixon. Most country acts choose to temper holiday sentimentality with a little religion. Sawyer Brown takes a different approach. As its title telegraphs, Hallelujah He Is Born is a distinctly religious Christmas album -- only a handful of songs aren't explicitly religious, and even they have a religious underpinning. That is the saving grace of the album, the one element that makes Hallelujah He Is Born stand out from the pack. The album still has the slick country-pop atmosphere that marks not only Sawyer Brown's work, but contemporary country in general -- but its religious conviction makes it one of the more original (and, actually, better) country-pop Christmas records of recent years. ~ Thom Owens

One of the most successful pop-country groups to emerge in the wake of Alabama, Sawyer Brown found its first taste of national success as the Grand Prize Winner of the 1983 season of Ed McMahon's televised talent show, STAR SEARCH. With a smooth, southern rock-influenced sound that set a template for many "new country" acts of the 1990s, the Nashville-based quintet's releases consistently remained near the top of the charts for two decades. Equally adept at heartache ballads and peppy dance numbers, Sawyer Brown framed lead singer Mark Miller's warm vocals with music that, while mellow, never lost sight of the group's pure country roots.

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