Kelly Doyle – Thieves (CD)
Product Details
Kelly Doyle has spent decades as a working musician's musician, the kind of player whose fluency across idioms, country instincts, jazz vocabulary, and the lush strangeness of mid-century exotica, doesn't announce itself but simply shows up in every phrase. Thieves arrives in 2026 as a distillation of that long road, nine tracks that trust the space between notes as much as the notes themselves.
Thieves is a document of Kelly Doyle's 30 years as a musician steeped in country, jazz and '50s exotica. Marked by freedom and restraint, he showcases his ability to unreel, flex, tease, cajole, inundate, and revel within the bounds of a single work. Composed for saxophone and guitar, Thieves offers an interplay of timbres that brings delicacy to complex melodies-tethered by unflinching bass and drums.
Tracklist:
- Thieves
- Pink Houses
- Cold Open
- Needlerooser
- A Year and a Day
- Big Fish
- Found a Knife
- Bats Are Cute
- Lodge Scene
UPC: 607396074112
Label: Strolling Bones Recs
Release Date: 8.14.26
Format: CD