 Grant-Lee Phillips sings with her on the track "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch".Mann has cited the influence of Johnny Mathis' album "Merry Christmas" (1958) on "One More Drifter in the Snow", deciding to "go the Mel Tormé, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, lounge-y, sort of Julie London record" rather than make an album in the style of "the groovy modern Christmas records".Another inspiration for the album was the Vince Guaraldi Trio's soundtrack for the 1965 film "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (see "A Charlie Brown Christmas" soundtrack), which Mann said "has a lot of dark and mysterious undertones.