Reason for the Season
2018 album by Mike Love
Reason for the Season is the third solo studio album by American musician Mike Love, co-founder of The Beach Boys. It was released on October 26, 2018. The album contains traditional Christmas carols, new songs, and re-recordings of "Little St. Nick" (from The Beach Boys' Christmas Album) and "Alone on Christmas Day", an unreleased song recorded by The Beach Boys in 1977. The album was released on compact disc and clear vinyl with red and green splatter.
The album was primarily recorded in Love's home studio on Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It features Love's children — Ambha, Brian, Christian and Hayleigh — who provide choral voices on five tracks, and his sister Maureen as the harpist on "O Holy Night". It also features a guest appearance by Hanson on "Finally It's Christmas", the title track to their 2017 Christmas album. Earlier in 2018, Love collaborated with Hanson on a re-recording of The Beach Boys' "It's OK". Hanson also recorded "Little St.
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