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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731458643623
Format: Import
Item Dimensions: 17
Label: Island
Manufacturer: Island
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Island
Release Date: November 13, 2001
Studio: Island
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
When former country starlet Shelby Lynne reinvented her musical persona on 2000's flawed but affecting I Am Shelby Lynne, critics salivated and even the Grammys responded with a belated Best New Artist trophy. The album's sound, somewhere between classic Memphis grooves, gothic swamp music, and post-Brill Building AM pop, was special enough that word of Lynne's studio collaboration with hyper-commercial producer-songwriter Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette, Dave Matthews Band) set some minds to worrying that her edge would be lost. They can stop fretting. Love, Shelby is actually superior in some ways to its predecessor. If anything, Lynne's writing and singing here are even more compelling. Ballard's touch is limited mostly to stacks of electric and acoustic guitars, which seem designed to slide the songs onto contemporary radio, and the updated, hip-hop-shaded beats that power many cuts. Lynne's concerns are front and center, whether in the vows of emotional openness and resilience on "Wall in Your Heart," "Trust Me," and "I Can't Wait" or the intimations of Southern soul on "Bend." John Lennon's "Mother" becomes a sort of autobiography in her hands--her father killed her mother in a murder-suicide when Lynne was a teenager--until switching the song's perspective to her dad's in the final verse. Her story gives the soaring "Killin' Kind" (previously heard on the Bridget Jones's Diary soundtrack) a hint of ambivalence about romantic surrender. A couple of cuts, most obviously "Jesus on a Greyhound," succumb to the self-consciousness that marred a couple of I Am Shelby Lynne's sketches, but that's a minor complaint in the face of what this record's best has to offer. --Rickey Wright
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....and a rather pretty one at that; but I think she also must be part chamelion...look at the album covers....all different, three or four barely similar girls [and I, for one, really like this one]...then, there's the music; all different as well, though the gorgeous voice is always unmistakable. This is Shelby the rocker; I suppose that you would classify the record as alternative rock, which is a nebulous term to begin with.
The big number here is "Jesus on a Greyhound", which is ... Read More
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This is a pretty good alt-country/pop album from Shelby Lynn. It doesn't fit neatly into any genre or category. Shelby definitely does her own thing and this album is different and interesting, after you let it grow on you a bit. Pretty cool.
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I had never heard of Shelby untill I saw her on GAC in a concert video. She sang a GREAT country blues rock version of JESUS on a GREYHOUND. I thought she was great !! I wish we could see and hear more of her work.
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I really like this album and think its a very good album. More generally, it has several songs that are hit songs and/or that are just enjoyable to listen to such as Wall in Your Heart. The music is excellent and enjoyable to listen to, the lyrics honest, clever. Its just a really heartfelt album. More personally, it is one of the few albums by female solo artists that I (a male)feel like the singer is singing love songs to me, and the songs feel genuine-like she really wanted to convey that to ... Read More
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I thought this was going to be Shania/Faith but it's much closer to Sheryl/Lucinda. It's pretty rootsy, she writes her own songs and she doesn't practice any of the extreme vocal exercises of the aforementioned. The one cover she does is John Lennon's "Mother" which I thought was a brave but odd choice until I read that her father killed her mother in a murder/suicide. One other positive point...she's really hot in a trampy way, which works for me! Plus there's a poster included!
