Christmas Shopping

1	Christmas Shopping / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos 2:18
2	Christmas Time Is Near / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos 3:00
3	The Jolly Christmas Polka / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos 2:15
4	All I Want for Christmas Is My Daddy / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos 2:51
5	Merry Christmas from Our House to Yours / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos 2:50
6	Good Old Fashioned Country Christmas / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos 2:36
7	One of Everything You Got / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos 2:24
8	Home on Christmas Day / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos 2:13
9	Christmas Schottische / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos 2:05
10	A Very Merry Christmas / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos 2:29
11	It's Not What You Give / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos 3:03
12	Tomorrow Is Christmas Day / Buck Owens & His Buckaroos 1:59

Barnes & Noble

A companion Sundazed reissue to Christmas with Buck Owens and His Buckaroos, this 1968 release finds Buck and band in a reflective mood, but with that razor-edged intensity intact. As usual, the Buckaroos are note-perfect, whether it's lead guitarist Don Rich switching over to acoustic for an evocative complement to Buck's thoughtful vocal on "Christmas Time Is Near" or the whole band rocking out and displaying some breathtaking mastery on two instrumentals, "The Jolly Christmas Polka" and "Christmas Schottische." Both hearken to the inventiveness that marked Buck's approach to music and his band's infallible command of any style thrown at them. Of course, Buck makes it all memorable with vocals that capture the complex feelings of the season, be they festive or downcast -- or both at once. Compared with Buck's first Christmas album, this one looks a little harder at the dark shadow trailing the glad tidings. David McGee

All Music Guide

Owens' second Christmas album emanates from five session held between February and June of 1968. At this stage of the game, the Buckaroos were a well-oiled studio machine and even the tinkly keyboard stylings of Earle "Poole" Ball doesn't detract from the twang quotient, although this is arguably a more slickly produced album than its predecessor. The usual batch of uptempo, optimistic opuses paired off with holiday weepers ("All I Want for Christmas Is My Daddy" is spot on target) makes this a country Christmas album with a nice, original touch to it. Cub Koda