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“I love everything about the holidays,” enthuses Rimes—so much so that the Grammy-winning country star is releasing a trio of Yuletide-themed EPs over the next three years. The first finds her covering favorites originally recorded by Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, Stevie Wonder and Dolly Parton, whose “Hard Candy Christmas” allows Rimes a chance to put her own sweet touch on the season.  

She’s weathered a very public divorce. Now the remarried country star is brimming with confidence on new songs like “What Have I Done,” with singer Alison Krauss, and “Gasoline and Matches” with guitar hero Jeff Beck. Is her clever rebuke to wrongdoers, “God Takes Care of Your Kind,” about her ex-husband? Rimes is too classy to say.