I'm really shocked! 
I was certain that it was a joke and I hope MK will NEVER make a Christmas album - they are out of date immediately Christmas is over! Clapton hasn't made a decent album since "From the Cradle" - all the rest have been pipe and slippers albums and this one is really scraping the bottom of the barrel, sorry to say! 
Pilgrim, Reptile and Back home are really good in my opinion. Funnily I find From the cradle quite boring.
I agree that a Christmas album looks a dumb thing to do. Dylan also did one some years ago.
I have two of those - Pilgrim and Reptile. Pilgrim is half OK - just! I like River of Tears, Going Down Slow, She's Gone and Fall Like Rain, but that's about it! Reptile is unbearable, apart from Travelling Light, which I quite enjoy, but that was written by JJ Cale and Clapton seems incapable of writing a good song. Everything he does is either a cover or a collaboration with someone else. The ones he has written are pure saccharin, especially Three Little Girls - yuck! The third, Back Home, I listened to and immediately knew it wasn't my cup of tea - ditto all that followed! Sorry, Eric!
