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Shelby Lynne on Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Landmark ‘I Am…’ Record, and Plotting a New Album With Karen Fairchild: ‘It’s Coming Full Circle’
Shelby Lynne on reissuing 'I Am Shelby Lynne,' which got her a 2001 best new artist Grammy, and a new project with Little Big Town's Karen Fairchild.
But spiritually, if not statistically, it felt right: “I Am…” was the album with which she became born again, after a promising career in mainstream country music that wasn’t nearly encompassing all she was capable of as someone who straddled pop, rock and old-school R&B as well as Americana. When you decamped for California all those years ago, it seemed like you had a “no hard feelings” attitude, but clearly you don’t associate that city with the most fruitful part of your career that followed, from “I Am Shelby Lynne” forward. I’ve always been partial to “Your Lies,” as an album starter, because it just comes out of the gate like you’re joining a story already in progress, or a car that’s already running down the road, with interesting chord changes at the same time.
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