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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Equity Music Group
Salesrank: 79855
Released: September 14, 2004 |
| Our Price: $7.75 |
| Used Price: $5.72 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Christmas with You Track Listing:
1. Finest Gift
2. Under the Mistletoe
3. Kid
4. Coolest Pair
5. Looking for Christmas
6. Christmas for Every Boy and Girl
7. Milk and Cookies
8. Slow as Christmas
9. Birth of the King
10. Looking for Christmas (Reprise)
11. Christmas With You
12. Santa's Holiday Song
Christmas with You Reviews:
Original Christmas music 
2009-09-07 - Clint's first Christmas album Lookin' for Christmas comprised all-original Christmas songs. This album is a straight re-issue and re-packaging of that album with two additional tracks including the new title track. Some reviewers, having bought the original album, were correspondingly unimpressed at this album and I can understand that. I never got around to buying the original album although I thought about it. On reflection, I'm glad I didn't because while I enjoy this album, I wouldn't buy it just to get the two extra tracks. If you have the original, you may consider looking to see if the new tracks are available as downloads. Right, so what if you haven't got the album at all? The rest of this review discusses the music on its merits.
This is a mellow, relaxing collection of songs, best listened to during the quieter moments during the festive period; it won't work as a party album. Typical of the album is the opening cut, The finest gift, in which Clint tells us that his woman's love is the finest gift that he can have, regardless of whatever she may buy him. He continues this theme with the next track, Under the mistletoe. Clint switches the focus to Santa on the next track, The kid, first reflecting on what it was like being a child looking forward to what Santa brings, then describing being the father of such a child.
Clint fantasises about Rudolph, Frosty and Santa in The coolest pair. The original title track, Lookin' for Christmas, finds Clint thinking about the very first Christmas. Clint reverts to the Santa and Rudolph theme in the next track, Christmas for every boy and girl. Clint sings from the perspective of a five-year-old boy in Milk and cookies, in which he leaves a snack for Santa so that he remembers to come back the next year, although he`s worried about how Santa will get in without a chimney to come down. No, Clint doesn't tell us how he solves that problem because that is Santa's secret.
Slow as Christmas, a misleadingly-titled song, actually is about how Christmas makes every other day seem slow. The original album is completed by The birth of the king and a reprise of Lookin' for Christmas. The new title track is about missing Christmas at home because of other commitments, so it's based on the same basic idea as the standard I'll be home for Christmas, but it's a very different song. The other track new for this release, Santa's holiday song, is back to the Santa and Rudolph theme, but this time pointing out that they, too, need a holiday.
As I bought it, this album contains the lyrics for each song, though if this is eventually released at a budget price, I doubt that you'll get those. Personally, I love this album, but I can imagine that it won't suit everybody. You really do need a quiet period in which to really appreciate the music here.
Put this under your tree! 
2007-12-04 - If you have not purchased a Christmas CD yet this season, do yourself a favor and purchase this one. I bought this last year and let a relative listen to it. I never got it back because it became her favorite Christmas CD. So, I bought a second one for me. I am not a country music fan but one can't help but like Clint Black and the songs on this CD which range in emotion from spiritually moving without being preachy to playful and childlike with imaginitive lyrics. The stories put forth in song should put a smile on your face and warm your heart during the Christmas season. If you are a fan of Clint Black, country music, country Christmas, or Christmas music in general, you should add this to your holiday listening list.
A quintessential country Christmas album
2006-03-11 - With a mix of song types, from classic country sounds to orchestral this is one amazing album. No traditional music but the songs on this disk will become new traditions in my home around the holidays.
What's wrong with the music industry! 
2005-11-19 - Loyal fans already have all their favorite artist's music, so let's make them pay full price to get two new songs.
Way to treat your best fans Clint!!!
What a marketing scam!
2004-11-28 - If the record comapny's going to re-package Clint Black's "Looking For Christmas" CD with 2 new tracks, then I wish they'd call it "Looking For Christmas - Expanded Edition" (or something like that) so as not to mislead buyers into thinking that it's a whole new collection of Clint Black Christmas songs. It's really ashame that this is basically the same CD as "Looking For Christmas" because I thought that original CD was pretty lame. Others apparently share this perception as well since it's available used on Amazon for less than the shipping charge! Oh- but now with this really cool (sarcasm) expanded edition with 2 new songs and a new title, you get maybe 35 minutes of music instead of just 30. Evidently Clint didn't have time to record enough songs for a whole new CD. What a joke!
