Album Notes

Need a holiday CD to get into the spirit, but can't take the cheesy sentimentality?

Ivanhoe Road Music presents, "The Joy Tree," Gayla Drake Paul's gorgeous acoustic guitar and vocal settings of some of your holiday favorites, including "We Three Kings," "Oh Christmas Tree," "The Holly and the Ivy," "Good King Wenceslas" and many more...hot off the presses and ready to bring the magic of Twilight into your holidays...

But don't take our word for it - go to
http://www.christmasreviews.com/wgdp11.shtml for a review from Carol Swanson.

And from Jim Musser of the Iowa City Press Citizen:

A world-renowned fingerstyle guitarist, Iowa native Paul also sports a voice of astonishing clarity, range and presence. This luminous homemade set of nine traditional tunes (plus a memorable original, "A Child This Day Is Born") is a perfect showcase for her pristine-yet-passionate technique and exhilarating flights of fancy, but she never strays too far from the time-worn melodies. Her "Auld Lang Syne" is a bittersweet masterpiece.