The Way We Love

A honey-glazed throat to send chills up and down your spine.
Los Angeles Times

Vocalist-songwriter Shelly Rudolph presents a unique and lyrical new song set, featuring legendary cellist David Darling whose layered textures blend with a subtle palette of piano-bass-guitar, and cameos from soprano saxist Devin Phillips. Along with six original songs are an inventively re-harmonized arrangement of "Stand By Me," and a sweetly soulful duet with Redray Frazier on Chris Pierce's "Slow Life." Long a poet as well, the album showcases her poetic and sensual expressivity on "The Way We Love," spoken against a sumptuous bed of Darling's cello tones and Tom Grant's piano. Rudolph's gospel-tinged originals, "Close Enough" and "Calling Me Home," open and close the session. Also joining Rudolph is guitarist Chance Hayden, bassist Dave Captein, and pianists David Goldblatt, Darrell Grant & David K Mathews.

"A robust and captivating vocalist." - JazzTimes

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Track Listing

1. Close Enough 4:35
2. Faith 3:35
3. Stand By Me 3:46
4. Butterfly Heart 2:45
5. The Way We Love 2:30
6. The Slow Life 2:36
7. The Mystery 3:43
8. Humanity 2:18
9. Calling Me Home 4:52

All music composed by Shelly Rudolph, Jollylama (ASCAP), except:
(2,7) Shelly Rudolph & Chance Hayden
(3) Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
(6) Chris Pierce

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