Little Big Town Goes Big on Christmas With Prime-Time Holiday Special and Album to Close Out Group’s 25th Anniversary Year
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Little Big Town likes to do things in fours, as the ensemble’s vocal-quartet configuration would indicate.
So the country-pop group wasn’t about to let its 25th anniversary pass with just one commemoration when four would do: a national tour with their longtime friends in Sugarland; a greatest hits album; a Christmas record; and the quartet’s first two-hour prime-time special, “Little Big Town’s Christmas at the Opry,” airing tonight on NBC.
They couldn’t have picked better ways to celebrate one-fourth of a century together. As a cherry on top, members Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet and Jimi Westbrook get to revel in this milestone while most would agree they’re looking and sounding pretty much as they did at their inception point at the end of the 1990s.
Their secret? “Smoke and mirrors,” says Westbrook. “I was gonna lie and say we get into cryogenic chambers every night after the show and they just get us back to normal.
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