Clay Aiken - Merry Christmas with Love

Clay Aiken is a show-biz creature, so it's only appropriate that the sequel to his hit 2003 debut, Measure Of A Man, is 2004's Merry Christmas With Love -- after all, there are few things quite as show biz as a holiday album. Aiken is a rarity in the new millennium: an old-fashioned, unironic middle-of-the-road singer. Those are the kinds of vocalists that always fare very well on Christmas records, so it should be no surprise that Aiken turns in a good holiday album. Actually, there are no surprises on the album -- the song selections are all standards, the arrangements are traditional and unobtrusive, always emphasizing Clay's voice, and the record is given a safe, high-gloss sheen ideal for adult contemporary radio. Read More