Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne
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Free Music Review: Breathtaking, raw, and emotional
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is so full of emotion that sometimes it's so raw that a song like "Your Lies" is almost painful to listen to. I love the way this album is well made without sounding slick or packaged by a marketing team. Every song is not a classic piece of song writing but each song is good (some are great) because of the way Shelby Lynne sings. This is just some really good music. Listen to it several times and watch it grow on you in the best way. It's not background music, it's music to actively listen to. This is what music is all about!Free Music Review: A Well Deserved Grammy
Hit: 5 Stars
After seeing Shelby Lynne perform live with Sheryl Crow on the Grammys, I was so impressed with her performance I went out and bought her "I Am Shelby Lynne" cd. Granted that this cd falls short of 40 minutes long, each minute of each song is so good. I can hear bits of Dusty Springfield in Shelby's music. I really wouldn't call this cd "country" since there are more elements of blues, pop and torch in Shelby's songs than there were country elements. My particular favorites are "Leavin'", "Your Lies" and "Why Can't You Be?" but every song is very good in its own way. Shelby definitely deserved that Grammy award.Free Music Review: review number hundred n' something
Hit: 4 Stars
I almost never watch TV or listen to radio, but decided to watch the Grammies to see what the popular music scene is up to. I usually listen to indie music. I don't know any Sheryl Crow, but I thought that in Lynne's duet with her, her voice was much better than Crow's. I was also struck by Lynne's rather charmingly unrefined presentation. I looked her up on the Internet and read some reviews, and saw an interview of her in which she was wearing a bandana and what appeared to be a Harley T-shirt. I liked this woman's attitude! I bought "I am Shelby Lynne" on a lark today and I give it 3.9 stars after first listen. It's fun! My favorite tracks are Lookin' Up, Where I'm From and Black Light Blue. If you are not really a country fan and are looking for a fun and genuine album by somebody who seems like a promising artist, check this out.Free Music Review: SOLID COMEBACK FOR NASHVILLE EXILE
Hit: 4 Stars
How long has it been since Shelby Lynne performed a stirring "Crazy", a la Patsy Cline, on a network broadcast country music awards show? Now, here she is so many years later with a solid review in Rolling Stone magazine for "I Am Shelby Lynne". After listening to some album cuts on the 'net, I bought the CD. Unlike so many albums, at least 75% of it is listenable over and over. The first cut , "Your Lies", took a few listens to fully appreciate, but once I did it became one of my favorites. This is not a "country" album, but it explores the same themes without the same old formula sound. Much of the album relies on the Memphis soul sound, especilly on the second track, "Leavin'". On the weaker tracks ( "Life is Bad", "Why Can't You Be?"), she sounds too much like a retread Bonnie Raitt. A more rocking backing band probably coud have helped these tracks. The horns on "Why Can't You Be?" almost remind me of The Band, but the effort seems to be bogged down. "Gotta Get Back" is more pop oriented and the most light-hearted song on an album caught up in darkness, heartache and pain. I can't understand why it hasn't become a radio hit. The last four tracks hold together better than the rest as a sequence. "Lookin' Up" and "Where I'm From" are poignant bluesy ballads with real down-home southern flavor. With "Dreamsome", she delves into some jazz-pop leanings-- strings, horns, flutes, etc., reminiscent of Van Morrison. "Black Light Blue", the closing track, is a gorgeous performance, bringing back images of the song sirens of the forties with the quiet piano/strings/horns/ bass backing. This is a fine effort. With only a few lapses,she deftly brings together a variety of infleunces (soul, jazz, rock, pop, country, folk, and blues) in the best tradition of such artists as Patsy Cline, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, who dare to cross the borders of "genre" for the sake of good music.Free Music Review: here's how she plays in New England
Hit: 4 Stars
I bought this CD because I really liked the song that was getting airtime locally (Life is Bad), and much more so because I kept hearing the djs on my favorite station say, after they had played one of her songs, that her CD was really incredible. So why not? I have to confess I was a little taken aback at first by the full orchestra behind the first cut, and I was surprised by the Motown feel of at least half of the songs. I'm not a country music buff, and I have no idea what her other work is like (or even who Shania Twain is, sorry), but this CD has the lovely, luscious feel of a woman who knows what she loves to sing and mixes it up for us, come what may. I've had it for about a week now, and I'm loving it more and more each time I give it a listen. I'm especially enjoying "Why Can't You Be?", "Gotta Get Back", and "Black Light Blue" at the moment; the last one is especially wonderful as a closing song--it has a kind of whiskey, cigarette, and lamplight feel to it. I'd definitely recommend it--if you liked the movie "The Commitments" and some of the slower tracks in it, you'll love this CD.