Home for Christmas is the thirtieth solo studio album by Dolly Parton. It was released on September 11, 1990, by Columbia Records. The album was produced by Gary Smith, with Dolly serving as executive producer. It is Dolly's second Christmas album, following 1984's Once Upon a Christmas with Kenny Rogers. Unlike Once Upon a Christmas, which featured a number of original songs, Home for Christmas is made up of ten Christmas standards. It peaked at number 74 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart upon release and number 29 on the Billboard Top Holiday Albums chart in 2020. The album's release was accompanied by an ABC television special, Dolly Parton: Christmas at Home. The album has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Track listing

1. First Noel (Public Domain) 4:03


2. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) 1:52


3. I'll Be Home for Christmas (Kim Gannon, Walter Kent) 3:13


4. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Johnny Marks) 3:25


5. Go Tell It on the Mountain (Public Domain) 2:50


6. The Little Drummer Boy (Katherine Kennicott Davis, Kenny Onorati, Henry Simeone) 4:34


7. We Three Kings (Public Domain) 2:44


8. Jingle Bells (Public Domain) 1:55


9. O Little Town of Bethlehem (Public Domain) 2:39


10. Joy to the World (Public Domain) 4:23

?The album was recorded in July 1990 at Nightingale Studios in Nashville, Tennessee
?The album was released September 11, 1990, on CD and cassette.It also received a limited LP release exclusively in the Netherlands.

?Dolly promoted the album's release with a television special titled Dolly Parton: Christmas at Home. It aired December 21, 1990 on ABC. The special features footage of Dolly in the studio recording the album, visiting and singing with her family at the Tennessee Mountain Home where she grew up, and musical performances filmed at a church and various other locations in the Smoky Mountains.

?The album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on December 27, 1994, for shipment of 500,000 copies.

Credits are adapted from the album liner notes.

Performance
Dolly Parton – lead vocals, background vocals

The Mighty Fine Band
Michael Davis – keyboards, percussion
Richard Dennison – background vocals
Jimmy Mattingly – fiddle, mandolin
Jennifer O'Brien – background vocals
Gary Smith – piano, B3 Hammond organ, keyboards
Howard Smith – background vocals
Steve Turner – drums, percussion
Paul Uhrig – acoustic bass, bass
Kent Wells – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Robert Williams – dobro

Additional musicians
Stuart Duncan – mandolin, fiddle
Carl Jackson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Michael Johnson – gut string guitar
Jack Smith – steel guitar
Alisa Jones Wall – Hammond dulcimer

Additional background vocals
Bob Bailey
Bobby Jones & Nashville
Bobby Jones, Theresa J. Comer, Everett Drake, Nuana Dunlap, Gary E. Jenkins, Lenoria Ridley, Lawrence D. Thomison, Harry Watkins, Angela Wright
The Christ Church Pentecostal Choir
Jason Beddoe, Coby Coffman, Al Coleman, Melissa Coleman, Joy Gardner, Landy Gardner, Vicki Pointer, Rebekah Rayborn, Tanya Sykes, Mark Warren
Carl Jackson
The New Salem Methodist Church Congregation

Our Kids
Trent Ashcraft, Alyson Chance, Hannah Dennison, Vanessa Hollowell, Jake Hoover, Crystal Hunt, Amy Johnson, Gretchen Johnson, Cole Kiracofe, Ian Kiracofe, Bryan Seaver, Rebecca Seaver, Austin Smith, Brandon Smith, Tiffany Smith, David Turner, Katie Turner, Derek Wells, Dustin Wells

Production
Michael Davis – recording assistant
Richard Dennison – production assistant
Chrissy Follmar – recording assistant
Brad Jones – recording assistant
Mark Kiracofe – production assistant
John King – recording assistant?
The Mighty Fine Band – recording, arrangements
Gary Paczosa – recording, mixing
Dolly Parton – executive producer
Denny Purcell – mastering
Gary Smith – producer

Other personnel
Dennis Carney – photography
Tony Chase – styling
?Rachel Dennison – makeup
Cheryl Riddle – hair