Kaye Bohler

Kaye Bohler: Handle the Curves

by C. Michael Bailey
October 19, 2014

"The White Tina Turner." Them is fightin' words. West coast vocalist and composer Kaye Bohler might be better described as Tina Turner covering Etta James at Muscle Shoals. Handle the Curves is a decade of original compositions that span from the Aretha Franklin-inflected “Diggin' on My Man" to the Van Morrison-ish title tune. “Backbone" is all Memphis: Hi Records and Stax. Bohler's horn section could have had their tutelage under the Memphis Horns. Bohler stays close to ...