[1][2] The album, produced by Frank Rogers, is a collection of twelve Christmas songs, including two originals and a collaboration with Sheryl Crow.

)"[4] On September 15, 2014, it was announced that Rucker had completed his first Christmas album and that it would be released on October 27, 2014.

[1] Home for the Holidays received mostly positive feedback from music critics.

In a three out of five star review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic states the album "winds up as a perfectly fine Christmas record, suited for those Rucker fans who have stuck with him from Hootie to R&B to country.

7 on the US Billboard Top Country Albums chart, selling 9,000 copies in its first week.