American singer and songwriter Shelby Lynne made her debut in 1989 with the country album Sunrise. In the course of the nineties she incorporated more big band and jazz influences into her music. Her sixth CD I Am Shelby Lynne doesn't have much to do with country anymore. Lynne has combined her roots with folk, pop and a bit of jazz in a way we know from Bonnie Raitt and Sheryl Crow, names that
… immediately come to mind when listening to the record. The fact that she mainly listened to Bonnie Raitt can be heard from the, by the way very beautiful, ballads, which fill most of the CD. The two strange ducks are the sixties pop single Your Lies, which sounds like it was produced by Phil Spector, and the soul ballad Leavin. (WvdZ)more
