Kelley Suttenfield
Where Is Love?
Rhombus Records
www.rhombus-records.com
By George W. Harris

Here’s a singer with a lot of great ideas, and the ability to deliver
them. It’s her debut disc, and the closest thing I can compare it to is
Madeleine Peyroux’s debut Dreamland way back when. It’s got the same
feel-take some songs people consider kind of standard, use whatever
instrument seems to be laying around, and have some fun with it. The
opening “Sugar” includes a funky Mingus bass line as the intro, while
crickets great the twinkling mood of an ethereal “Twilight Time.” An
Indian folk take with sitars and table, give a whole different meaning
to “Nature Boy,” while the Brazilian lilt of “I Fall In Love Too
Easily” gives it an extra sense of bluesiness. Suttenfield herself
sounds comfortable in her own skin, and quite work-wise for a
rookie-she sounds like she means it when she recites “Ode To Billy Joe”
as if giving out the story between sips of coke at the local Texaco.
Give me more!