The 2006 release of Hall & Oates first Christmas album is the focus of this year’s holiday tour by the group. The holiday tour starts November 20th in Chicago.

“Last year we didn’t tour the album — instead [we did] a lot of promotion for it,” Hall tells Billboard.com. “This year, we’re not doing much promotion and we are touring. It’s a holiday show. We’ll do the full album and then at the encore, a bunch of Hall & Oates songs.”

While “Home for Christmas” received a limited release last year through DKE Records, Hall says this season the 11-track album will be available nationwide. In 2006, the album’s lead single, “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. Hall says a new single, which has yet to be determined, will be released this holiday season.

“I think you can go two ways with Christmas music,” Hall says. “You can either go sort of the novelty way, the ‘I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus’ kind of crap, or you can go more into the true sense of Christmas way, which is a more spiritual thing. To me, this is the real essence of Christmas. That’s the path I chose for this piece, and I can do Christmas shows behind this for the rest of my life.”