Album Review: When We Were Young from Kelly Suttenfield
Album: When We Were Young Artist: Kelley Suttenfield Website: www.kelleysuttenfield.com Singer Kelley Suttenfield offers her renderings of some of Neil Young's most notable tunes on her recording When We Were Young , featuring the Memling Ensemble String Trio on a selection of tracks. Produced and arranged by guitarist Tosh Sheridan, songs refurbished with orchestral elements by the Trio give them a new look and feel. Suttenfield's own timbres are very much the female counterpart to Neil Young's gravelly bristles, possessing a similar folksy tone with smoother strokes and caressing motions. Her treatment of "The Losing End" is adorned in country twange trimmings accompanied by her vocal phrasing that sits comfortably on the bobbing knolls of the rhythm section. "Flying on the Ground" is anchored by light-footed drumbeats rotating around the silky guitar strings bowing softly around Suttenfield's vocals, imbuing the track with a feminin...