November 11, 2025 • 28 mins
Christmas is a time for sweet surprises... LeAnn Rimes thinks to too!
She's surprising us with a new album, "Greatest Hits Christmas" full of holiday classics like "Rocking Around The Christmas Tree" and songs from Hallmark movie soundtracks including, "You and Me and Christmas." Plus, its got two original new songs and a couple of duets - one with the sensational Luke Evans and another with Gavin DeGraw! Surprise! Surprise!
LeAnn is the most delightful, down-to-earth, REAL person! You're gonna love this conversation and maybe you'll think of another Christmas classic that could have been on the album, once you've listened.
And hey, after you've enjoyed this episode, look for LeAnn in her new role as Dixie on 9-1-1 Nashville. She's fantastic! ~ Delilah
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ah, Christmas time. I love the Holidays. I love this
time of year. Christmas is a time for the sweet
little secrets and surprises. There's nothing that delights me more
than watching children who were trying desperately to keep quiet
about their gifting adventures, but absolutely bursting at the seams
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wanting to let the secret out. I'm a big secret
keeper myself who loves, loves, loves to surprise people. That's
why I create extravagant scavenger hunts every Christmas morning, making
my kids and my grandkids follow clues to find them
one big family gift of the year. My parents made
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Christmas a magical time of the year for me and
my siblings, even though they were on a shoe string budget,
and I am only too to continue the tradition. What
I didn't know back then is that I'd be raising
children for forty one plus years. It's a good many
years of secret keeping and writing the rhyming clues for
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our scavenger hunt. Someone else that must love secrets is singer,
songwriter and actress Leanne Rhymes. She recently announced that she'd
been keeping a Christmas secret herself, though she chose to
let the cat out of the stocking before December twenty fifth.
She just released her fourth Christmas album. Greatest Hits Christmas,
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is comprised of holiday classics like Rock and Round the
Christmas Tree and songs from holiday Hallmark movie soundtracks including
You and Me and Christmas and While her greatest soundtrack
Maybe Can't Fight the Moonlight from Kyote Ugly. She lent
her voice and her acting skills to Hallmark holiday movies
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throughout the years. Songs from both Holiday and Your Heart
and It's Christmas Eve will be included in Greatest Hits Christmas.
She unwrapped another surprise too. The album will feature two duets,
one with Luke Evans on There's No Such Thing from
the musical thirty two Hoofs, and one with Gavin de
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Graus collaborating on Celebrate Me Home. Leanne Riimes originally rose
to success as a country music artist at the young
age of thirteen, and has since crossed over into both
pop and contemporary Christian Three decades into her career, she's
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had more than forty singles on international charts, sold more
than forty eight million records worldwide, with over twenty million
album sales here in the US alone. This new album
isn't the only thing this hard working star has been
putting her talents to. She's also recently joined the cast
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of ABC's new TV show nine to one one Nashville
as the character Dixie Bennings. Dixie is a musician herself,
but unlike Leanne, has always been a backup singer. It'll
be fun to see where Leanne takes this character, and
I'm going to say right now that she will be
exceptional in this new role. Leanne is joining us today
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none of the cow with me on Love Someone Today
is the very very very busy. Oh my gosh, I
don't know. Just like reading the notes they sent me,
I'm like, how the hell, are you even breathing, Leanne Rymes,
(05:40):
You're juggling like fifteen plates all at the same time,
wearing three or four five different hats and still looking good.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Well, thank you. It's it's been a year.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It's been a wild year, and I just recently have
had a very unexpected like two weeks off, and I'm
so happy about that. It's yeah, I've been, I've been.
It's been the last couple of years. Last year I
did the voice over in the UK and Australia at
the same time, and then ended up finishing that coming
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back home and then starting a new project with nine
one Nashville, and I got a new Christmas album coming out,
So yeah, there's like a gazillion things and.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
We're gonna we're gonna dig into some of them. I
know we don't have time to go into all of them,
but you just kind of let it slip in there,
your new Christmas album. Yeah, before we started the interview,
I told you this is this is the first year
in a couple of years since I lost my son Zach,
that I haven't had to work at finding the Christmas spirit.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I am so excited for the holidays. This year, I'm bubbling.
I'm like, I'm like like elf, hopping around excited.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I always get excited for the holidays.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Like my tree right now is our trees are up,
like I just put them up yesterday.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Oh wow, so you are ready?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
When did you?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
When did you start the album?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
We so you know, I am I love Christmas and
I've put out so many Christmas records and then I
had a Holiday movie with Hallmark a few years ago,
so you know, I've turned out holiday music now for god,
I don't know how long, many many years, the last
twenty something years, and finally we were like, we should
put this all on one compilation into the Greatest Hits
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Christmas Record and then put a couple of new songs
on it. So we've been we've been playing Christmas since.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Like the summer, basically.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah, since since everybody else was laying in the sand.
You were like, okay, so the holiday movies you were in.
You've got a couple of songs on this album from
the holiday movie, the home movie.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yes I do so.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
The movie was called It's Christmas Eve, and so we
have that songs on the record. A couple other songs
we wrote for the for the film, and I've got
some really fun duets. I did a do it with
Gavin to Grab back in the Day from another record
and we Ala Black and then a new duet with
my dear friend Luke Evans, which is the craziest.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Song you will ever hear, and it's so much fun.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
All right, tell us about it.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
So it's a bit ba hombug and I you know,
I know there are people out there that are like,
oh Christmas, and so we have a song on the
record for you. It's called There's No such thing as Christmas.
And it's very like wacky, like theatrical. It's really fun.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
So if one of my listeners, and it's only got
to be one because I you know, next to you,
I am mother Christmas right like this show go for
the forty plus years I've been doing it, it's all
Christmas balls to the wall like Ho ho ho and
Fuzzy Nittons. But if there is one person out there listening,
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they that that has the I don't want to think
about Christmas. I don't want to deal with Christmas. I
am not getting the tree out of the closet this year.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
There's a song for you and The funny thing is
because you know, like I do, I do holiday shows
all the time around you know, Christmas, and you'll see
a few like especially dudes. You'll see some of the
dudes in the audience that you know just got drug
there that are not in the Christmas spirit. And I'm
very excited to have a song for them this year
that you can play. They'll be very happy.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I need to come up on stage with you and
dedicate it to them.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yes, they need you, definitely do. It's their song.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I need to do the whole Delilah thing. Set it up.
You there in the front row and the red and
black class.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
We see you. We see it, and you are and
you are seen and so this is for you.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, we are going to embrace it and celebrate it
with you. Is Lou gonna be on tour with you
at all while you're doing No.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Oh, he's actually filming overseas right now. But and he
did when we recorded this. He he did his part.
I think he was in a beza at the time,
and went in a studio at a Za and recorded,
and then I recorded here and then all.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Kind of got put together.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
We I met him a couple of years ago he
did a show for the BBC and invited me over
to to come and sing with him, and so we
did a couple songs together and I just fell in
love with him.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
He's the sweetest human being.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
He's exploded.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah, and he's so creative and he's so fun and
he's like I just love he's up for anything. Like
when I when I text him this, I'm like, you're
gonna think I'm crazy. This is a wacky song. But
you're the only person that could pull this off with me.
He was all in, all in and so inspiring.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
He's so fun, fun, fun, fun. So you have a tour,
a Christmas tour, you're gonna be singing songs off the album.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
But it's it's small, it's short, it's show. I'm filming
at the same time. Whatever whatever ever we'll do. It'll
extend next year to get bigger. But this year I'm
filming in Nashville around that time, So I'm literally going
to be working during the week and then going on
on the weekends and doing a couple of shows and
coming back. So it's a lot to juggle, but it'll
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be fun. I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Who needs sleep, not me who needs sleep? Land Rhymes
filming during the week nine to one to one Nashville,
which is like taking off like crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I know. I'm so excited. People love it, people love
the franchise. The franchise is amazing, and I'm having.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
So much fun on the show.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I get to play something completely opposite of myself.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
She's definitely I hated to play this, like I.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Get to play Dixie is her name, which I love,
and it's she's a manipulator and is just a firecracker
and just not like. All of the things about her
personality are definitely like not me and real life at all.
So I get to let all these other pieces of
myself that I never never get to let out of
the closet out.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
So the good girl that we know and love, Yes,
the sweet girl that we know and love, the Leanne
Rhymes that we've known and love since you are like
twelve thirteen years old. I know there's a little wild side,
you're saying, a little naughty side, little manipulative side coming out.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
There's no yeah, I mean we all have it in us, right,
I just get to let it out through this character,
and it's so fun.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I love her.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
If my listeners Leanne saw me in real life, they
would just be shaking their head, going, this cannot be real.
Like she sounds so dang nice on the radio every night.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
You're like chain smoking in a bar. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
No, IM not that, but I am. I am a jerk,
a jerk.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I wouldn't say you're a jerk.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Oh yeah, that's because I have never played a really
horrible practical joke on you. Oh yeah, well, I'll plan
some out for a year.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Oh wow, I'll wait, you'll wait and then you pound.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I'll wait for the right moment. So so back to
Dixie Dixie Billings and you're you're handsome love interest.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh well, no, that's not my love interest. That's my son.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
No in the show.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Oh so you're talking about Chris. Yeah, Chris, Okay, my
love interest Chris.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
But he's not he is my I mean, I don't
feel like I have a love interest completely because he's
he's my baby daddy, like old like old love interests.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Oh so yeah, he's the baby daddy. My gorgeous son.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Who gorgeous son?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
A gorgeous son.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I'm like, how it doesn't feel right for me to
have a son that age. But although my oldest stepsm's
twenty two, so you know, but yeah, Chris is Chris
is my baby daddy, and so we're there's this friction.
Jessica Capshaw is his wife on the show, and the
greatest thing the friction between us, because it's just, you know,
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it's I've been I've been not a part of their
life for for many many years.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
And here here, here I come back.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Here you come blustering back, young.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Care I come and causing trouble.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
How much how much of Dixie is? Is that like
side of you you've kept in the closet, Like, oh.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
She's definitely there.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I mean, like it's funny because I don't know what
it was about this character, but I so wanted to
play her because I think it's been It's been really
cathartic for me, you know, I I grew up in
front of everyone's eyes, is the perfect little girl, you know,
And I think a lot of people for a long
time saw me that way.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
And I think to allow.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Like the grittier, like darker sides of myself that haven't
really they don't get to come out and play very often,
but they're there because we're all human. I think it's
been really cathartic for me because of it feels like
I've had to like kind of repress a lot of
things along the way, and now I'm like, oh, I
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get to let it out in this character. And there's
something about her that I just understood, and I think
she has this beautiful, big heart. I think is at
least the way I'm playing her, because you know, like
I said, we're human, and I think she's she feels
like she's been slighted in life, and so I understand
all of those feelings. So I think I don't think
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she means well, but she definitely is out to get
what she's owed.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
At least I'm playing her that way.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I was going to say, how much of this are
you like saying, Hey, I want to do it this way?
Like do they let you do that? Do they let
you bring?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I mean I auditioned and I hadn't went in and
bed for a role since I was like seventeen, And
I auditioned and I went in with she smokes in
the show, and she's actually trying to quit because I
have like a voice issue in the show, and so
I went in and with like a pack of cigarettes
and like a whole thing and the body language and
it was just I don't know how whatever I did.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
They were like, that's it.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I guess they had auditioned so many people for this
role and they hadn't quite landed on a thing, and
so they just let me go with what I was feeling.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
So yeah, so you get to kind of breathe life
into her. M Oh how fun. Yeah, so you you
can do naughty y'all on your own, is what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Absolutely, I've got a very vivid imagination and I do
it well.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Leanne. We had no idea. Like you said, you've grown
up in front of us.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, I think you were like sixteen or seventeen. The
first time I met you. You were in our studios
to be on the Leah Knight Show. Oh yeah yeah,
and you were in the studio and I'm like, oh.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
My god, I know I was such a baby.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
You were such a cute little girl. Thanks and your
beautif well, you're a beautiful young woman. But yeah, knowing
that you you do notughty well is kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I mean no, I mean it's crazy, like we're coming
up on the thirtieth anniversary in Blue, which is next year,
which is I can't even fathom that that was thirty
years ago.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It's so wild to me.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
It feels like it was thirty years ago, and at
the same time, it feels like it was just yesterday.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Wow. Yeah, So Christmas, back to Christmas tour, we're bouncing
all around here. First off, wait, before we get back
to a Christmas tour. I had this idea that, you know,
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nine to one to one Nashville if if somebody needed
to call, but instead they called the Delilah Show and yes,
and I patched them in to the department. What's that?
What's like this? You know the Sexy Chief? Yes, and
then you got to sing a song to them. This
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could be fun.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I like it. I'm going to pitch that.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Tell them listen Delilah to it. Do you know I've
actually had to do that. I had to put people
on hold who've called me in crisis and put them
on hold really and call the police department. And I
have no idea. So then I have to go back saying,
so you're you're calling me from what city? What what area?
Did you want to give me your phone number?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
That's wild.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I mean, I'm sure you've heard everything. Everything that's like
I was just talking the other day. You know, I've
been touring since I was thirteen, and somebody was like,
is there anything that ever freaks you out on stage? Like?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Absolutely not. Everything has happened to me on stage.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I know one thing that I bet has not happened
to you on stage that I saw happen. I was
in Eugene, Oregon introducing because you know, radio stations we
think we're big stuff because we get to introduce the
artist and so it's basking and radiated glory. We bask
in your glory and we think we're cool that way.
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So I got to introduce Glenn Campbell, Oh wow. And
I went backstage. They had a little trailer Lane County Fairgrounds,
and he sang Amazing Grace and played it on the bagpipe.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
And at the end of the song he left the stage,
which he wasn't supposed to do, and he came back
to the trailer he had broken his front toothaw. Yeah,
with the bagpipe.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Oh my god. So this happened to me the other day.
What so, Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Telling you this story thinking I will stump you and
you can stump me.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
So I had.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I was a Finn Washington doing a show, and I
have my had. I've had like forty dental surgeries.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It's a whole thing.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
So I have a bridge in the very front, and
all of a sudden, about four songs in my bridge
comes out and it is it is my front teeth.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I'm missing one too. So I have a bridge in
the front.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
So the whole bridge comes out and I literally go whoo.
I put my hand over my mouth. I run to
the side of the stage and I'm like, I don't
know what to do, so I push it back in
and I'm like, oh, it's kind of staying for a moment,
so let me go finish this song. So I walk
out and I finish. I was singing one way Ticket.
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So I finished the song and I go, you guys,
I go, I've never had to do this before in
my life. I'm going to be as real as I
ever have been on stage. My bridge just fell out,
and everybody's so funny. The audience they were like, this
is Washington, nobody has teeth up here.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Like it was. They were the best crowd.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
But I was able to like sing, I was able
to continue the show because I thought I was going
to have to walk off because obviously that's not going
to fly. So I just literally kept singing and chushing
it back in the whole show, the whole show.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
So you think that you can step my life's even worse.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I was gonna stump you. And Glenn's didn't even come close.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
No, it was probably my pants could fall down on
the stage and I'd be like, what ebs, what EV's
This was like I don't know what to do. So
they were great. It was probably one of the best
shows ever because so much sad. It was in Washington.
I forgot where we were, Washington, d C. Or Washington
State State. Were you in Seattle? Were you at the.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Outside of Seattle.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
We were at a big casino up there, and oh
my god, it was just the best it was.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I still I can't. I just die laughing every time
I think about it.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Wow. Yeah Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So after that, like I can handle pretty much, you.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Can handle anything and any thing, Yes, So.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
That I know you're like, wait, I need to compute this.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, I'm just like I wish I had been there.
I wish I had been there. You know what I
did when they came backstage with Glenn, I said, I
can fix that, and I reached in my purse and
because I used to have, you know, fake nails, I
had super glue in my purse because I was always
popping them off. I said, give me your tooth, and
I put super glue on it and he pushed it
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up there and he went out and finished the show.
God see, if I had been there with you, I
would have put super glue on your.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Thank you on your bridge. I had to do that.
I had to go get like. There was no one.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I couldn't go see anyone the next day and I
had a show that next night, so I literally I
called my dentist and I'm like, what can I get
at the drug store that'll stay in? And the next
night I literally it stayed in for about forty five
minutes and then it popped out, and I told the audience.
I warned them at the beginning that this could happen,
and I said, I'm going to have to walk off
probably at some point, which I did, put glued it
back in, went back on.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Wow, girlfriend, you are amazing. You are amazing. I love you.
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So for your tour schedule, they could get your Christmas album,
they can come see you. They might have to fly
to get there, but.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yes, but it'll be worth it. You're nice and my teeth.
We'll remaining. I promise.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Your tour not not going to be hitting my neck
of the woods. But like you said, you're filming during
the week and then you're going to go give your
weekends up to sing these beautiful Christmas songs to people.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, I'm excited. We're going to be a little bit
of everywhere.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
We're going to be in upstate New York and New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
We're going to be in Arizona for a couple of shows.
We're going to be in Nashville.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
The Ryman right, we're playing the rhyme is.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
So magical to play the Ryman. I love it.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Especially at Christmas time. Leah, I love the Big Apple
at Christmas time, but me too. Nashville at Christmas time.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
National's turning into the Big Apple.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
It is, but they go all out, Yeah they do.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, it is indeed magical. So tell me about the
single that you have out off this album, Greatest Hits Christmas, so.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
We it's funny.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
All of ut for Christmas is You by not the
Mariah and the Vince fans and the Valiant song. I
have been singing the song since I was probably seven
years old, and it was on my very first Christmas record,
and we've never released it as a single, so we
figured it was time.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
So it is.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Yeah, and not a lot of people have covered this song,
surprisingly because it's such a great song.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
So yeah, I'm excited to have it out there.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Fun Leanne, thank you so much for being with us today.
I know you got a crazy schedule and the fact
that you took time out to just hang out and
be so damn real.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
It's so wonderful to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Never will I ever try to one up you. Again ever,
all right, Happy holidays, Happy holidays, I'm say for you
this year.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Thank you, enjoy your season.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Thank you you two.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It's nice to see you.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Bye bye. The Secret is out. Greatest Hits Christmas, a
new holiday album by beloved artist LeAnn Rhymes, is available now,
and the Greatest Hits Christmas Tour is coming up fast,
with seven stops in Morristown, New York, Glynnside, Pennsylvania, Stonybrook,
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New York, Nashville, Tennessee, Jasper, Indiana, and Scottsdale and Tucson, Arizona.
You will be one lucky little elf if you are
able to catch one of these shows. Head over to
Leannerhymes dot com for all the details on her music
and her touring schedule. Maybe pick up some merchandise while
you're there, and don't forget to tune into nine to
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one one Nashville to watch Leanne and see where she
takes this character of Dixie. What little secrets are you
carrying around this holiday season? Have something special for the kiddos?
Or a beloved plan? Is your head phil with ideas
on how to make someone happy? Isn't it amazing that
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Christmas does that to us? That's the Christmas spirit at work.
Can I ask one little favor of you this year?
If you have a little extra, will you think of
making a donation to a local food bank or a
charity of your choice. That is one impactful way that
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you can love someone. God bless you.
Ah, Christmas time. I love the Holidays. I love this
time of year. Christmas is a time for the sweet
little secrets and surprises. There's nothing that delights me more
than watching children who were trying desperately to keep quiet
about their gifting adventures, but absolutely bursting at the seams
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wanting to let the secret out. I'm a big secret
keeper myself who loves, loves, loves to surprise people. That's
why I create extravagant scavenger hunts every Christmas morning, making
my kids and my grandkids follow clues to find them
one big family gift of the year. My parents made
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Christmas a magical time of the year for me and
my siblings, even though they were on a shoe string budget,
and I am only too to continue the tradition. What
I didn't know back then is that I'd be raising
children for forty one plus years. It's a good many
years of secret keeping and writing the rhyming clues for
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our scavenger hunt. Someone else that must love secrets is singer,
songwriter and actress Leanne Rhymes. She recently announced that she'd
been keeping a Christmas secret herself, though she chose to
let the cat out of the stocking before December twenty fifth.
She just released her fourth Christmas album. Greatest Hits Christmas,
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is comprised of holiday classics like Rock and Round the
Christmas Tree and songs from holiday Hallmark movie soundtracks including
You and Me and Christmas and While her greatest soundtrack
Maybe Can't Fight the Moonlight from Kyote Ugly. She lent
her voice and her acting skills to Hallmark holiday movies
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throughout the years. Songs from both Holiday and Your Heart
and It's Christmas Eve will be included in Greatest Hits Christmas.
She unwrapped another surprise too. The album will feature two duets,
one with Luke Evans on There's No Such Thing from
the musical thirty two Hoofs, and one with Gavin de
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Graus collaborating on Celebrate Me Home. Leanne Riimes originally rose
to success as a country music artist at the young
age of thirteen, and has since crossed over into both
pop and contemporary Christian Three decades into her career, she's
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had more than forty singles on international charts, sold more
than forty eight million records worldwide, with over twenty million
album sales here in the US alone. This new album
isn't the only thing this hard working star has been
putting her talents to. She's also recently joined the cast
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of ABC's new TV show nine to one one Nashville
as the character Dixie Bennings. Dixie is a musician herself,
but unlike Leanne, has always been a backup singer. It'll
be fun to see where Leanne takes this character, and
I'm going to say right now that she will be
exceptional in this new role. Leanne is joining us today
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none of the cow with me on Love Someone Today
is the very very very busy. Oh my gosh, I
don't know. Just like reading the notes they sent me,
I'm like, how the hell, are you even breathing, Leanne Rymes,
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You're juggling like fifteen plates all at the same time,
wearing three or four five different hats and still looking good.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Well, thank you. It's it's been a year.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It's been a wild year, and I just recently have
had a very unexpected like two weeks off, and I'm
so happy about that. It's yeah, I've been, I've been.
It's been the last couple of years. Last year I
did the voice over in the UK and Australia at
the same time, and then ended up finishing that coming
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back home and then starting a new project with nine
one Nashville, and I got a new Christmas album coming out,
So yeah, there's like a gazillion things and.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
We're gonna we're gonna dig into some of them. I
know we don't have time to go into all of them,
but you just kind of let it slip in there,
your new Christmas album. Yeah, before we started the interview,
I told you this is this is the first year
in a couple of years since I lost my son Zach,
that I haven't had to work at finding the Christmas spirit.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I am so excited for the holidays. This year, I'm bubbling.
I'm like, I'm like like elf, hopping around excited.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I always get excited for the holidays.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Like my tree right now is our trees are up,
like I just put them up yesterday.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Oh wow, so you are ready?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
When did you?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
When did you start the album?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
We so you know, I am I love Christmas and
I've put out so many Christmas records and then I
had a Holiday movie with Hallmark a few years ago,
so you know, I've turned out holiday music now for god,
I don't know how long, many many years, the last
twenty something years, and finally we were like, we should
put this all on one compilation into the Greatest Hits
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Christmas Record and then put a couple of new songs
on it. So we've been we've been playing Christmas since.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Like the summer, basically.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah, since since everybody else was laying in the sand.
You were like, okay, so the holiday movies you were in.
You've got a couple of songs on this album from
the holiday movie, the home movie.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yes I do so.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
The movie was called It's Christmas Eve, and so we
have that songs on the record. A couple other songs
we wrote for the for the film, and I've got
some really fun duets. I did a do it with
Gavin to Grab back in the Day from another record
and we Ala Black and then a new duet with
my dear friend Luke Evans, which is the craziest.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Song you will ever hear, and it's so much fun.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
All right, tell us about it.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
So it's a bit ba hombug and I you know,
I know there are people out there that are like,
oh Christmas, and so we have a song on the
record for you. It's called There's No such thing as Christmas.
And it's very like wacky, like theatrical. It's really fun.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
So if one of my listeners, and it's only got
to be one because I you know, next to you,
I am mother Christmas right like this show go for
the forty plus years I've been doing it, it's all
Christmas balls to the wall like Ho ho ho and
Fuzzy Nittons. But if there is one person out there listening,
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they that that has the I don't want to think
about Christmas. I don't want to deal with Christmas. I
am not getting the tree out of the closet this year.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
There's a song for you and The funny thing is
because you know, like I do, I do holiday shows
all the time around you know, Christmas, and you'll see
a few like especially dudes. You'll see some of the
dudes in the audience that you know just got drug
there that are not in the Christmas spirit. And I'm
very excited to have a song for them this year
that you can play. They'll be very happy.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I need to come up on stage with you and
dedicate it to them.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yes, they need you, definitely do. It's their song.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I need to do the whole Delilah thing. Set it up.
You there in the front row and the red and
black class.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
We see you. We see it, and you are and
you are seen and so this is for you.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, we are going to embrace it and celebrate it
with you. Is Lou gonna be on tour with you
at all while you're doing No.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Oh, he's actually filming overseas right now. But and he
did when we recorded this. He he did his part.
I think he was in a beza at the time,
and went in a studio at a Za and recorded,
and then I recorded here and then all.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Kind of got put together.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
We I met him a couple of years ago he
did a show for the BBC and invited me over
to to come and sing with him, and so we
did a couple songs together and I just fell in
love with him.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
He's the sweetest human being.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
He's exploded.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah, and he's so creative and he's so fun and
he's like I just love he's up for anything. Like
when I when I text him this, I'm like, you're
gonna think I'm crazy. This is a wacky song. But
you're the only person that could pull this off with me.
He was all in, all in and so inspiring.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
He's so fun, fun, fun, fun. So you have a tour,
a Christmas tour, you're gonna be singing songs off the album.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
But it's it's small, it's short, it's show. I'm filming
at the same time. Whatever whatever ever we'll do. It'll
extend next year to get bigger. But this year I'm
filming in Nashville around that time, So I'm literally going
to be working during the week and then going on
on the weekends and doing a couple of shows and
coming back. So it's a lot to juggle, but it'll
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be fun. I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Who needs sleep, not me who needs sleep? Land Rhymes
filming during the week nine to one to one Nashville,
which is like taking off like crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I know. I'm so excited. People love it, people love
the franchise. The franchise is amazing, and I'm having.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
So much fun on the show.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I get to play something completely opposite of myself.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
She's definitely I hated to play this, like I.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Get to play Dixie is her name, which I love,
and it's she's a manipulator and is just a firecracker
and just not like. All of the things about her
personality are definitely like not me and real life at all.
So I get to let all these other pieces of
myself that I never never get to let out of
the closet out.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
So the good girl that we know and love, Yes,
the sweet girl that we know and love, the Leanne
Rhymes that we've known and love since you are like
twelve thirteen years old. I know there's a little wild side,
you're saying, a little naughty side, little manipulative side coming out.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
There's no yeah, I mean we all have it in us, right,
I just get to let it out through this character,
and it's so fun.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I love her.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
If my listeners Leanne saw me in real life, they
would just be shaking their head, going, this cannot be real.
Like she sounds so dang nice on the radio every night.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
You're like chain smoking in a bar. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
No, IM not that, but I am. I am a jerk,
a jerk.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I wouldn't say you're a jerk.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Oh yeah, that's because I have never played a really
horrible practical joke on you. Oh yeah, well, I'll plan
some out for a year.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Oh wow, I'll wait, you'll wait and then you pound.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I'll wait for the right moment. So so back to
Dixie Dixie Billings and you're you're handsome love interest.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh well, no, that's not my love interest. That's my son.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
No in the show.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Oh so you're talking about Chris. Yeah, Chris, Okay, my
love interest Chris.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
But he's not he is my I mean, I don't
feel like I have a love interest completely because he's
he's my baby daddy, like old like old love interests.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Oh so yeah, he's the baby daddy. My gorgeous son.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Who gorgeous son?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
A gorgeous son.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I'm like, how it doesn't feel right for me to
have a son that age. But although my oldest stepsm's
twenty two, so you know, but yeah, Chris is Chris
is my baby daddy, and so we're there's this friction.
Jessica Capshaw is his wife on the show, and the
greatest thing the friction between us, because it's just, you know,
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it's I've been I've been not a part of their
life for for many many years.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
And here here, here I come back.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Here you come blustering back, young.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Care I come and causing trouble.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
How much how much of Dixie is? Is that like
side of you you've kept in the closet, Like, oh.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
She's definitely there.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I mean, like it's funny because I don't know what
it was about this character, but I so wanted to
play her because I think it's been It's been really
cathartic for me, you know, I I grew up in
front of everyone's eyes, is the perfect little girl, you know,
And I think a lot of people for a long
time saw me that way.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
And I think to allow.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Like the grittier, like darker sides of myself that haven't
really they don't get to come out and play very often,
but they're there because we're all human. I think it's
been really cathartic for me because of it feels like
I've had to like kind of repress a lot of
things along the way, and now I'm like, oh, I
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get to let it out in this character. And there's
something about her that I just understood, and I think
she has this beautiful, big heart. I think is at
least the way I'm playing her, because you know, like
I said, we're human, and I think she's she feels
like she's been slighted in life, and so I understand
all of those feelings. So I think I don't think
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she means well, but she definitely is out to get
what she's owed.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
At least I'm playing her that way.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I was going to say, how much of this are
you like saying, Hey, I want to do it this way?
Like do they let you do that? Do they let
you bring?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I mean I auditioned and I hadn't went in and
bed for a role since I was like seventeen, And
I auditioned and I went in with she smokes in
the show, and she's actually trying to quit because I
have like a voice issue in the show, and so
I went in and with like a pack of cigarettes
and like a whole thing and the body language and
it was just I don't know how whatever I did.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
They were like, that's it.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I guess they had auditioned so many people for this
role and they hadn't quite landed on a thing, and
so they just let me go with what I was feeling.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
So yeah, so you get to kind of breathe life
into her. M Oh how fun. Yeah, so you you
can do naughty y'all on your own, is what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Absolutely, I've got a very vivid imagination and I do
it well.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Leanne. We had no idea. Like you said, you've grown
up in front of us.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, I think you were like sixteen or seventeen. The
first time I met you. You were in our studios
to be on the Leah Knight Show. Oh yeah yeah,
and you were in the studio and I'm like, oh.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
My god, I know I was such a baby.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
You were such a cute little girl. Thanks and your
beautif well, you're a beautiful young woman. But yeah, knowing
that you you do notughty well is kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I mean no, I mean it's crazy, like we're coming
up on the thirtieth anniversary in Blue, which is next year,
which is I can't even fathom that that was thirty
years ago.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It's so wild to me.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
It feels like it was thirty years ago, and at
the same time, it feels like it was just yesterday.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Wow. Yeah, So Christmas, back to Christmas tour, we're bouncing
all around here. First off, wait, before we get back
to a Christmas tour. I had this idea that, you know,
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nine to one to one Nashville if if somebody needed
to call, but instead they called the Delilah Show and yes,
and I patched them in to the department. What's that?
What's like this? You know the Sexy Chief? Yes, and
then you got to sing a song to them. This
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could be fun.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I like it. I'm going to pitch that.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Tell them listen Delilah to it. Do you know I've
actually had to do that. I had to put people
on hold who've called me in crisis and put them
on hold really and call the police department. And I
have no idea. So then I have to go back saying,
so you're you're calling me from what city? What what area?
Did you want to give me your phone number?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
That's wild.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I mean, I'm sure you've heard everything. Everything that's like
I was just talking the other day. You know, I've
been touring since I was thirteen, and somebody was like,
is there anything that ever freaks you out on stage? Like?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Absolutely not. Everything has happened to me on stage.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I know one thing that I bet has not happened
to you on stage that I saw happen. I was
in Eugene, Oregon introducing because you know, radio stations we
think we're big stuff because we get to introduce the
artist and so it's basking and radiated glory. We bask
in your glory and we think we're cool that way.
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So I got to introduce Glenn Campbell, Oh wow. And
I went backstage. They had a little trailer Lane County Fairgrounds,
and he sang Amazing Grace and played it on the bagpipe.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
And at the end of the song he left the stage,
which he wasn't supposed to do, and he came back
to the trailer he had broken his front toothaw. Yeah,
with the bagpipe.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Oh my god. So this happened to me the other day.
What so, Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Telling you this story thinking I will stump you and
you can stump me.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
So I had.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I was a Finn Washington doing a show, and I
have my had. I've had like forty dental surgeries.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It's a whole thing.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
So I have a bridge in the very front, and
all of a sudden, about four songs in my bridge
comes out and it is it is my front teeth.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I'm missing one too. So I have a bridge in
the front.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
So the whole bridge comes out and I literally go whoo.
I put my hand over my mouth. I run to
the side of the stage and I'm like, I don't
know what to do, so I push it back in
and I'm like, oh, it's kind of staying for a moment,
so let me go finish this song. So I walk
out and I finish. I was singing one way Ticket.
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So I finished the song and I go, you guys,
I go, I've never had to do this before in
my life. I'm going to be as real as I
ever have been on stage. My bridge just fell out,
and everybody's so funny. The audience they were like, this
is Washington, nobody has teeth up here.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Like it was. They were the best crowd.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
But I was able to like sing, I was able
to continue the show because I thought I was going
to have to walk off because obviously that's not going
to fly. So I just literally kept singing and chushing
it back in the whole show, the whole show.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
So you think that you can step my life's even worse.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I was gonna stump you. And Glenn's didn't even come close.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
No, it was probably my pants could fall down on
the stage and I'd be like, what ebs, what EV's
This was like I don't know what to do. So
they were great. It was probably one of the best
shows ever because so much sad. It was in Washington.
I forgot where we were, Washington, d C. Or Washington
State State. Were you in Seattle? Were you at the.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Outside of Seattle.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
We were at a big casino up there, and oh
my god, it was just the best it was.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I still I can't. I just die laughing every time
I think about it.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Wow. Yeah Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So after that, like I can handle pretty much, you.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Can handle anything and any thing, Yes, So.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
That I know you're like, wait, I need to compute this.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, I'm just like I wish I had been there.
I wish I had been there. You know what I
did when they came backstage with Glenn, I said, I
can fix that, and I reached in my purse and
because I used to have, you know, fake nails, I
had super glue in my purse because I was always
popping them off. I said, give me your tooth, and
I put super glue on it and he pushed it
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up there and he went out and finished the show.
God see, if I had been there with you, I
would have put super glue on your.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Thank you on your bridge. I had to do that.
I had to go get like. There was no one.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I couldn't go see anyone the next day and I
had a show that next night, so I literally I
called my dentist and I'm like, what can I get
at the drug store that'll stay in? And the next
night I literally it stayed in for about forty five
minutes and then it popped out, and I told the audience.
I warned them at the beginning that this could happen,
and I said, I'm going to have to walk off
probably at some point, which I did, put glued it
back in, went back on.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Wow, girlfriend, you are amazing. You are amazing. I love you.
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find your tour schedule? And ABC?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Right?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
ABC is ABC.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
ABC IS nine one Ashville and then LeAnn Rhymes dot com.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
So for your tour schedule, they could get your Christmas album,
they can come see you. They might have to fly
to get there, but.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yes, but it'll be worth it. You're nice and my teeth.
We'll remaining. I promise.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Your tour not not going to be hitting my neck
of the woods. But like you said, you're filming during
the week and then you're going to go give your
weekends up to sing these beautiful Christmas songs to people.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, I'm excited. We're going to be a little bit
of everywhere.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
We're going to be in upstate New York and New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
We're going to be in Arizona for a couple of shows.
We're going to be in Nashville.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
The Ryman right, we're playing the rhyme is.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
So magical to play the Ryman. I love it.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Especially at Christmas time. Leah, I love the Big Apple
at Christmas time, but me too. Nashville at Christmas time.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
National's turning into the Big Apple.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
It is, but they go all out, Yeah they do.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, it is indeed magical. So tell me about the
single that you have out off this album, Greatest Hits Christmas, so.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
We it's funny.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
All of ut for Christmas is You by not the
Mariah and the Vince fans and the Valiant song. I
have been singing the song since I was probably seven
years old, and it was on my very first Christmas record,
and we've never released it as a single, so we
figured it was time.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
So it is.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Yeah, and not a lot of people have covered this song,
surprisingly because it's such a great song.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
So yeah, I'm excited to have it out there.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Fun Leanne, thank you so much for being with us today.
I know you got a crazy schedule and the fact
that you took time out to just hang out and
be so damn real.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
It's so wonderful to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Never will I ever try to one up you. Again ever,
all right, Happy holidays, Happy holidays, I'm say for you
this year.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Thank you, enjoy your season.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Thank you you two.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It's nice to see you.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Bye bye. The Secret is out. Greatest Hits Christmas, a
new holiday album by beloved artist LeAnn Rhymes, is available now,
and the Greatest Hits Christmas Tour is coming up fast,
with seven stops in Morristown, New York, Glynnside, Pennsylvania, Stonybrook,
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New York, Nashville, Tennessee, Jasper, Indiana, and Scottsdale and Tucson, Arizona.
You will be one lucky little elf if you are
able to catch one of these shows. Head over to
Leannerhymes dot com for all the details on her music
and her touring schedule. Maybe pick up some merchandise while
you're there, and don't forget to tune into nine to
(27:43):
one one Nashville to watch Leanne and see where she
takes this character of Dixie. What little secrets are you
carrying around this holiday season? Have something special for the kiddos?
Or a beloved plan? Is your head phil with ideas
on how to make someone happy? Isn't it amazing that
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Christmas does that to us? That's the Christmas spirit at work.
Can I ask one little favor of you this year?
If you have a little extra, will you think of
making a donation to a local food bank or a
charity of your choice. That is one impactful way that
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you can love someone. God bless you.
Host
Delilah
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