Lady A slates Xmas EP

"A Merry Little Christmas" drops Oct. 12, according to Billboard.com. The release will have five holiday favorites, including Silver Bellsand one new song, On This Winter's Night. Tom Douglas, who also helped write past Lady Antebellum singles I Run to You and Hello World, was involved in penning the new song.

"We recorded all of this in July," Haywood told Billboard.com, "so it was a little bit peculiar being in the studio in the middle of July in Nashville, Tenn., 100 degrees outside, sweating, and doing a Christmas record. But we had a great time doing it. We had the studio all decorated...We brought everything we had from our houses and decorated and tried to get into the spirit. It was a fun experience."

On the new song, Haywood said he and band mates Hillary Scott and Charles Kelley "tried to take some of our Christmas memories, and some of the things we remember from the holiday season, and put them into a song. It was definitely a new experience for us; we'd never written a Christmas song, really, before. But it was a lot of fun trying to look at what we do and how we spend the holidays and take that feeling and put it into a song."