Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne
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Free Music Review: perfect.
Hit: 5 Stars
"Where I'm From" cannot be touched in its humility and beauty. I swear one has visions of spanish moss as Shelby Lynne coos and purrs in Cajun French verse.
"Your Lies" an anthem for being s--t on by a lover. Who can't relate to this one. Its most most powerful statement is held within the title--your lies. not you hurt me and please pity me, but YOUR LIES. It's as if she were saying, this is the grief you have caused, so OWN it f----r!
"I'm leaving" is that horrible peak of realization. When you're tired of hurting, then you're just plain tired of hurting. This song makes a masterpiece out of this all too familiar plea.
An HONEST, TRue record.
Free Music Review: Yes she is...
Hit: 5 Stars
An achingly beautiful album from a tortured woman, "I Am Shelby Lynne" is essential listening and easily one of the best albums of 2000. Bill Bottrell crafts an aurally lush but not overproduced sound that fills and envelopes the space around Lynnes confessional lyrics. This was her break from the overly produced material she recorded earlier in her Nashville career and it's unlike anything on country radio today. Her subsequent work has been good but not great. By far her best work, this is the one you'll come back to time and time again.Free Music Review: A modern classic***
Hit: 5 Stars
Forgetting the hype, the comparisons, the image, the press, and getting down to the music: this album is great from beginning to end. It is inspired. A true classic. Some of the songs have a retro feel with the souped-up horns and strings...this is not a knock on the sound. I love it. The songs are all put together really well, the lyrics are strong, and the album flows. A must own!Free Music Review: Deep, Dark, and Beautiful
Hit: 5 Stars
In her early teens, Shelby Lynne was hailed as the next big thing in country music. Blessed with natural beauty and rich, pitch-perfect pipes that rival the power of any tenor, she was a lock to line the pockets of Nashville's scaly, venomous venture capitalists.
Lynne broke their hearts into a million little pieces. Not only did she scoff at being LeAnn Rimes, she refused to be Tammy Wynette or Loretta Lynn. Instead, she drank, smoked, and spat in the eyes of the country establishment, and starved for her insolence. Eventually she got her wish through dogged determination - a disc that not only features her gorgeous voice but her own compositions,too. I can only speculate, but her mournful and defiant lyrics appear to be autobiographical and complement her poignant and accessible melodies.
This is *not* a country album. "This Is Shelby Lynne" (I love the bravado) is the manifesto of a living, heavy-breathing torch and soul singer. Deeply personal, this disc bleeds pain, bitterness, and sensuality. Try to overlook other reviews that focus on the lush production. Lynne harmonizes exclusively with herself throughout, and repeated listenings will confirm that no one harmonizes better with Shelby Lynne than Shelby Lynne.
Fifty years ago, this disc would have been a vanguard of pop. You won't hear tracks from "This Is Shelby Lynne" on any radio station, and that is a sad commentary on today's popular music. If Shelby was "The Bachelorette," I'd beg, borrow, steal, or kill to be her mate.
Free Music Review: Borderline Masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
"I am Shelby Lynne" is one of the best albums I've ever heard. That's my declaration. And that declaration is far from uncommon. This is both good and bad news for Ms. Lynne, who, however unfairly, will struggle to ever touch the magic of this album during her career.
Poignant, detached, honest and dropped into the music scene like an empty whiskey bottle on the kitchen floor, "I Am Shelby Lynne" took the music world entirely off-guard. A B-List Nashville artist, cast aside by several labels, pursues Bill Bottrell, practically begs to work with him and wins the "Best New Artist" Grammy for her efforts. A bit of a country song in and of itself...
Lynne's confident, sexy vocals fit the Southern-baked soul to a "tee" and the most overt hint of vulnerability suggests Dusty Springfield at her peak. Crickets, the front porch, check-out girls and ladies in jeans...the roots of the material are as connected to Lynne as her own childhood and her seemingly effortless walk through the disc's ten tracks have made her somewhat of "The Artist" - an industry darling considered to represent the best of what labels can offer.
Heavy promotion sent thousands of copies of "I Am Shelby Lynne" into the record bins, but don't let the low prices fool you: This album made practically every "best of" list that year, so find out why the tiny lady with the smoky chords lit them all on fire.