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List Price: $17.98 | | Label: Albany Records
Salesrank: 182404
Released: September 1, 2005 |
| Our Price: $17.98 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Christmas Cedar & Spruce Track Listing:
1. Angels We Have Heard on High
2. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
3. What Child is This
4. Silent Night
5. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
6. Joy to the World
7. In the Bleak Mid-Winter
8. Santa Claus is Coming to Town
9. We Three Kings
10. Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
11. Good King Wenceslas
Editorial Review:
You'll remember Joel Brown from all those wonderful discs with the late Bill Crofut from Albany's “early years.” Now he's back with a delightful Christmas disc with his celebrated friends and family. This album was inspired by a concert and TV show featuring Brown's arrangements of Christmas tunes for a student guitar ensemble. It was such a success that he was encouraged to create this recording. All right, it took more than a decade but it was worth the wait! As with those great Crofut albums, the arrangements are jazzy, folksy and often times plain-old traditional. Of course you've heard these tunes a lot of times in the past, but they've never sounded so fresh as they do here. As Joel writes, “Christmas music has always been my favorite part of the holiday season. I still feel a flood of excitement and joy when I think of standing in our little hometown church singing in unison with family and friends. I hope the music on this recording will bring some of that same feeling to you. Merry Christmas!”
