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Artist: Faith Hill<br />
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Album: Joy To The World<br />
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Bitrate: VBR kbps<br />
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Label: Warner Bros<br />
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Year: 2008<br />
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Genre: Country<br />
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Rip date: Sep-25-2008<br />
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Store date: Sep-30-2008<br />
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Size: 45,1 MB<br />
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Track List<br />
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Track Listing:<br />
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01 - Joy To The World 02:15<br />
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02 - What Child Is This? 03:37<br />
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03 - Santa Claus Is Comin To Town 02:47<br />
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04 - Little Drummer Boy 03:08<br />
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05 - O Come All Ye Faithful 03:48<br />
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06 - Holly Jolly Christmas 02:20<br />
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07 - Away In A Manger 03:16<br />
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08 - O Holy Night 04:59<br />
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09 - Winter Wonderland 02:40<br />
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10 - Silent Night, Holy Night 03:11<br />
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11 - A Baby Changes Everything 04:54<br />
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36:55 min<br />
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Notes<br />
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One of the biggest female country stars of the 90s and 2000s, Faith<br />
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Hill also took advantage of the inroads Shania Twain made into pop<br />
<br />
territory, becoming an enormous crossover success by the end of the<br />
<br />
millennium. Of course, Hills movie star good looks certainly helped her<br />
<br />
cause, and her much-celebrated marriage to fellow country star Tim<br />
<br />
McGraw gave her career an extra kick of glamour and mystique. Hill may<br />
<br />
not have appealed to country purists, but she had the star power of a<br />
<br />
diva even before her pop success<br />
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<br />
Faith Hill was born Audrey Faith Perry on September 21, 1967, in<br />
<br />
Jackson, MS, and grew up in the nearby small town of Star. She was<br />
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singing for her family as young as age three and first performed<br />
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publicly at a 4-H luncheon when she was seven. Hill spent much of her<br />
<br />
childhood singing wherever the opportunity arose, influenced primarily<br />
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by Reba McEntire, and at age 17 formed a band that played local rodeos<br />
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At 19, she quit college and moved to Nashville to make it as a singer<br />
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first finding work selling T-shirts. During this time, she was married<br />
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briefly to music executive Dan Hill. Eventually she was hired as a<br />
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secretary at a music publishing firm, where she was discovered by<br />
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accident while singing to herself one day. Encouraged by company head<br />
<br />
Gary Morris, Hill became a demo singer for the firm and also performed<br />
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professionally as a harmony vocalist behind singer/songwriter/producer<br />
<br />
Gary Burr, who produced Hills own demo tape. A Warner Brothers<br />
<br />
executive caught Burr and Hills act at a Nashville club, and wound up<br />
<br />
signing Hill to a solo deal<br />
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Hill released her debut album, Take Me as I Am, in late 1993, with<br />
<br />
producer Scott Hendricks at the helm. Success wasnt long in coming the<br />
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lead single Wild One raced up the country charts en route to a four<br />
<br />
week run at number one early the next year, making her the first female<br />
<br />
country singer in 30 years to top the charts for that long with her<br />
<br />
debut single. The follow-up, a countrified cover of Janis Joplins<br />
<br />
Piece of My Heart, also hit number one, as did the albums title<br />
<br />
track, and Take Me as I Am wound up selling over three million copies<br />
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Hill was set to build on her success right away, but had to undergo<br />
<br />
surgery on her vocal cords, which delayed the recording of her next<br />
<br />
album. Nevertheless, the wait wasnt unreasonable, and It Matters to Me<br />
<br />
appeared in the summer of 1995. The title track became her fourth number<br />
<br />
one country single, and it was accompanied by a string of Top Ten hits<br />
<br />
that helped push initial sales of the album past the three million mark<br />
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Hill was by now a firmly established country hitmaker, and she continued<br />
<br />
her active touring schedule by teaming up with Tim McGraw in 1996 for<br />
<br />
the Spontaneous Combustion Tour. It was an apt name, as Hill married<br />
<br />
McGraw that October. The couples first child, daughter Gracie, was born<br />
<br />
in May of 1997, and not long after, their duet Its Your Love<br />
<br />
recorded for McGraws Everywhere album -- was burning up the country<br />
<br />
charts, staying at number one for six weeks<br />
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Hill returned in the spring of 1998 with Faith, which provided the first<br />
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signs that she was interested in crossing over to pop audiences, even if<br />
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the still-countrified music often straddled the fence instead of making<br />
<br />
her ambitions explicit. The single This Kiss proved the savvy of her<br />
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approach not only did it top the country charts for three weeks, but it<br />
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also became her first pop hit, climbing to number seven. By the time<br />
<br />
This Kiss had run its course on the charts, Hill had given birth to<br />
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her second daughter with McGraw, Maggie. If Hill had been a star in the<br />
<br />
country world, she was now rapidly becoming a superstar, known not just<br />
<br />
for her music but also her pure celebrity she also signed an<br />
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endorsement deal with Cover Girl makeup. Her next two singles, Just to<br />
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Hear You Say That You Love Me (another duet with McGraw) and Let Me<br />
<br />
Let Go, hit number one country, though they didnt duplicate the pop<br />
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success of This Kiss<br />
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Faith, released in 1998, became Hills biggest-selling album yet<br />
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eventually moving over six million copies and reaching the Top Ten on<br />
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the LP charts plus, it became crystal clear that Hill held major<br />
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crossover appeal. Accordingly, she re-entered the studio immediately<br />
<br />
after her supporting tour and cut Breathe, a full-fledged bid for pop<br />
<br />
and adult contemporary success. Breathe entered the charts at number one<br />
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upon its release in late 1999, and its title track became Hills biggest<br />
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hit yet it spent six weeks on top of the country charts and was an even<br />
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bigger hit on the adult contemporary charts. While it only climbed to<br />
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number two pop, the single had such staying power that it wound up the<br />
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biggest hit of the year 2000. The follow-ups were pretty successful in<br />
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their own right: The Way You Love Me and There Youll Be both hit<br />
<br />
the pop Top Ten, with the former topping the country charts and the<br />
<br />
latter hitting number one AC. Hill also scored a Top Ten country hit<br />
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with Lets Make Love, a third duet with McGraw, and the two teamed up<br />
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for another tour in 2000. Breathe was a bona fide blockbuster, selling<br />
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over seven million copies in the U.S. and earning her a slew of award<br />
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nominations. Hill spent much of 2001 taking a break and spending time<br />
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with Audrey, her third daughter with McGraw<br />
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In 2002, Hill returned to the spotlight with her fifth studio recording<br />
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Cry, a three-million seller whose title track netted her the Best Female<br />
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Vocal Performance Grammy for 2003. Hill took nearly three years to<br />
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return to recording, but when she released Fireflies in August 2005 it<br />
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was hailed as one of her finest works. The lead single Mississippi<br />
<br />
Girl (written by John Rich of the hit country duo Big & Rich) hit<br />
<br />
number one on the country singles chart, and the album reached number<br />
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one on the album charts. Her Soul2Soul II tour of 2006, which she co<br />
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headlined with McGraw, became the highest-grossing country tour of all<br />
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