Rebecca
Kyler Downs
Love Me Like Candy
Every
now and then, a true quality chanteuse will appear on the music
scene. Following in the footsteps of fellow California sirens
Lavay Smith and Cassie Miller, Rebecca Kyler Downs has finally
emerged in her own right from the band Red & the Red Hots with
her new CD, Love Me Like Candy. Kyler Downs' first solo
release with her new band Strictly Ornamental is masterfully arranged
by Christopher Brady and the legendary boogie woogie piano king
Red Young. The young singer coos the opening title track so sweetly
that it will take your breath away-as it did for the producers
of Roswell on the WB, who picked up the song for the show's
soundtrack this season. The album features five other originals,
including the burlesque-styled "Bernaise" and the heartbreaking
"Belle Epoque."
Kyler
Downs melts you through her smooth sultry vocals in her recreation
of Duke Ellington's "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" and follows
it up by belting out her own "Boogie with the Bad Cats." Other
standouts on this recording are the popular standard "Dream a
Little Dream of Me," Cole Porter's "Love for Sale" and Sondheim's
"Sooner or Later" (which you might remember Madonna singing in
the movie Dick Tracy). A true pleasure, Rebecca Kyler Downs'
Love Me Like Candy is a modern masterpiece that blends
sultry vocals with near perfect jazz and modern big band arrangements.
-Smilin'
Buddha Joe
Visit
the band at www.rebeccakylerdowns.com
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