# Sheryl Crow, Dusty Springfield fans: Have you checked out Shelby Lynne? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheryl-crow-dusty-springfield-fans-have-you-checked-out-shelby-lynne/433399 "2008-01-13T19:45:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheryl-crow-dusty-springfield-fans-have-you-checked-out-shelby-lynne/433399/1 "2008-01-13T19:45:41Z")
There is an article in the NYTimes Weekly Magazine on Shelby Lynne - she is putting out an album covering Dusty Springfield tunes, and the article focuses on the struggles of her career despite her musical brilliance. So I went back and dusted off my copy of **I am Shelby Lynne** , the CD that won a Grammy and was supposed to be her breakthru equivalent of **Sheryl Crow’s Tuesday Night Music Club** (even produced by the same guy, Bill Bottrell). I have listened to it a few times, but revisiting it again, I have to say: It is a brilliant album. I can say without reservation that whatever reason this CD didn’t break through, it had nothing to do with the actual music. The overlaps with Crow are big - about half the songs leave me thinking about which Crow album they would appear on, and between which songs. (as an aside, I have a profound respect for Sheryl Crow as a singer and producer; in some ways, she is both blessed and cursed to be very attractive and have a “whiskey kitten” voice - I put her on a level with Carole King as a master of songcraft who happens to be a woman). But where Crow’s CD has been steeped in the Eagles and other SoCal soft-rock-that-evolved-into-New-Country, Lynne’s has a bigger dose of straight-up R&B and 60’s Countrypolitan - so the string arrangements both sound right and stand out as sounding different. Some of the songs are very “wet” - the vocals are mixed with a lot of reverb - like the new Robert Plant / Alison Krauss CD produced by T-Bone Burnett. Bottom line is that it is a great CD - she sounds authentic and accessible; if she brings that to this new Springfield covers CD, count me in. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheryl-crow-dusty-springfield-fans-have-you-checked-out-shelby-lynne/433399/2 "2008-01-13T19:52:36Z")
I’m not a fan of country (didn’t know she was into R&B), but I do like her song “Wall in your Heart”. I will check her out. ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheryl-crow-dusty-springfield-fans-have-you-checked-out-shelby-lynne/433399/3 "2008-01-13T21:31:23Z")
I love, love, love Shelby Lynne. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheryl-crow-dusty-springfield-fans-have-you-checked-out-shelby-lynne/433399/4 "2008-01-14T02:53:51Z")
[QUOTE=the Lady] I love, love, love Shelby Lynne. [/QUOTE] I would too, if I could get her to stand still… ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheryl-crow-dusty-springfield-fans-have-you-checked-out-shelby-lynne/433399/5 "2008-01-14T03:17:55Z")
I was going to title my record _I Am Shelby Lynne_. When she beat me to it, I was so pissed off I still haven’t forgiven her.