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Remember Christmas is a unique musical offering featuring the vocals of Dawn Smith Jordan, contemporary Christian singer/songwriter/recording artist with Urgent Records, and the unique guitar talents of the well-known seven-string jazz guitarist, Jerry Sims, owner and manager of Sims Music.

Having performed as a part of their home church’s annual Christmas pageant, First Baptist Church of Columbia, SC, for over 15 years, the two began discussing the possibility of recording a Christmas CD a few years ago. After beginning to perform duets together during the pageant, the duo received rave reviews from attendees, sparking interest in a recording project. The requests continued in the last few years, and thus, the project was born, bringing to fruition a well-rounded musical package of 13 tracks.The title cut, Remember Christmas, is an original penned by Dawn and Jerry. Although the mix is a simplistic blend of Jerry's versatile guitar expertise coupled with Dawn's stylistic vocals, the project is not without musical flavor spanning the styles of traditional, gospel, jazz, Latin, a little taste of the blues, and a country song thrown in there for fun. The only other instrumentation on the album is the offering of a friend on the Zen Drum on What Child is This? and I Bought You a Plastic Star (for Your Aluminum Tree) a children's choir on Christmas Time is Here, and Dawn's background vocal harmonies interspersed sparingly throughout.

Tracklist:

1. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
2. Jesus What a Wonderful Child
3. Remember Christmas | sample
4. What Child is This?
5. Christmas Time is Here
6. Frosty the Snowman/Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town (guitar solo) | sample
7. Put a Little Holiday in Your Heart
8. Let My Heart Become Your Home
9. I Bought You a Plastic Star (for Your Aluminum Tree) | sample
10. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts)/White Christmas
11. Go Tell It
12. Bethlehem Morning
13. Your Presence for Christmas

 If you're in the Columbia area you can purchase copies of both "Christmas With You" and "Remember Christmas" at Sims Music!