Beyond the Season

Beyond the Season is the first Christmas album by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released on August 25, 1992, by Liberty Records, and peaked at number 2 on both of Billboard magazine's Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums sales charts that year. Beyond the Season was also the best-selling Christmas/holiday album of 1992 in the United States with sales of 1,542,000 copies for the year according to Nielsen SoundScan.^[7] As of November 2014, the album has cumulative sales of 2,650,000 copies in the U.S. and is the seventeenth best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the U.S. during the entire SoundScan era (March 1991 – present).^[8]

Beyond the Season

August 25, 1992

Jack's Tracks Recording Studio (Nashville, Tennessee).

33:48

Liberty

Allen Reynolds

On November 15, 1995, Beyond the Season was certified Triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipment of 3 million copies in the United States.^[9]

– lead vocals, harmony vocals (3, 8, 9), acoustic guitar

Garth Brooks

Bobby Wood – acoustic piano, keyboards

– accordion (4)

Joey Miskulin

Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar

Chris Leuzinger – acoustic guitar (1-9), electric guitars (1-9)

– steel guitar (3, 5, 8)

Bruce Bouton

Mike Chapman – bass (1-9)

Milton Sledge – drums (1-9), percussion (1-9)

Rob Hajacos – (3, 8)

fiddle

Charles Cochran – string arrangements (10, 11)

Cynthia Reynolds Wyatt – (10, 11)

harp

Bob Mason – cello (10)

Gary Vanosdale – viola (10)

Carl Gorodetzky – violin (10)

Pamela Sixfin – violin (10)

– strings (11)

The Nashville String Machine

Christ Church Choir – choir (5)

Landy Gardner – choir director (5)

– harmony vocals (5, 9)

Trisha Yearwood

– harmony vocals (9)

Allen Reynolds

– harmony vocals (9)

Jim Rooney

Backing Vocals (Tracks 1 & 11)

Allen Reynolds – producer

Mark Miller – recording, mixing

Matt Allen – recording assistant

Carlos Grier – digital editing

Denny Purcell – mastering at Georgetown Masters (Nashville, Tennessee).

Virginia Team – art direction

Jerry Joyner – design

Beverly Parker – photography

Beyond the Season