IT HAD TO BE YOU, by Mara Kaye

IT HAD TO BE YOU

by Mara Kaye

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1.	Black Sheep Blues (feat. Carl Sonny Leyland) 03:32	info
2.	In Love Again (feat. Carl Sonny Leyland) 03:45	info
3.	Dystopian Blues (feat. Carl Sonny Leyland) 02:33	info
4.	It Had To Be You (feat. Carl Sonny Leyland) 04:43	info
5.	Going Crazy With The Blues (feat. Carl Sonny Leyland) 03:51	info
6.	Stop Lying On Me (feat. Carl Sonny Leyland & "Big"Jon Atkinson) 04:35	info

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- It Had To Be You -

"Mara Kaye and Carl Sonny Leyland create an elegant roughness in their art. IT HAD TO BE YOU has been flattened by decades of performance, but Mara's intensity makes it startlingly passionate, a love-note from someone who was once a stranger and now will be forever an intimate, while Sonny prowls his own sonic worlds, tender and gritty at once. What a pair they are!"

Michael Steinman, JAZZ LIVES
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- Dystopian Blues -

"They DO make music like they used to. I’m not sure a professional musicologist would guess that this song is from 2021. It sounds like it’s a hundred years old and brand new all at the same time. Mara Kaye’s vocal is quintessential traditional jazz/blues music… and Carl Sonny Leyland plays the piano so well we’re not sure if he loves it or is mad at it. The combination of Kaye’s vocal and Leyland’s keys make a magic that we rarely hear in Americana these days and we’re absolutely thrilled to support it here. This is a hidden gem of the highest value."

- Ear to the Ground Music
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" Mara Kaye.

A voice that sounds like Louis Armstrong's trumpet at a rent party taking place in Victoria Spivey's high-ceiling, pre-war Brooklyn apartment ..."

- Jimmy Vivino, Guitarist / Band Leader & Music Director of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

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released February 22, 2022

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Mara Kaye Los Angeles, California

"A joyous phenomenon, she becomes her songs. She doesn't pose, she doesn't copy, but her entrancing music pierces our hearts."

Bred and Buttered in Brooklyn, NY and happily living in LA Mara Kaye sings songs of the past and the present with a light and joy that pours straight from the source and hits you right where you need it. ... more

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