Camp Holiday, Martin Sexton (Kitchen Table)

I'm not all that familiar with Sexton, but the customer reviews at iTunes were mostly adulatory for him, if not necessarily for this 2005 CD. The buyers seemed to regard it as a holding action while he puts together another album of original material. This is your basic acoustic singer-songwriter approach to a CD full of classic carols leavened with a few pop classics, no surprises in song selection, and not much in tempo either. The one original tune, "Welcome to the Camp," at least throws a funky acoustic beat into the mix. Too mellow for my taste, but if there were more performances like "Welcome to the Camp" we might have had something here. The CD will make a contribution to Camp Sunshine for children with life-threatening illnesses, by the way.