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Shelby Lynne on Making a New Record When She Thought She Was Done, Working With an All-Star Female Creative Team, and How She Saved Her Own Life
Shelby Lynne, who made 'Consequences of the Crown' with Karen Fairchild and Ashley Monroe, says 'if I hadn't quit drinking, I'm not sure I'd be here.'
Lynne claims she thought her record-making days were more or less done prior to finding herself in the studio for her new album, “Consequences of the Crown.” She had moved back from California to Nashville after a quarter-century absence to be near her sister, fellow singer-songwriter Allison Moorer, but also to get a songwriting publishing contract. A song that comes earlier in the album, “Regular Man,” is very striking, in being filled with dark references to alcohol, and even specifically the Maker and Jim Beam, and how these are harming somebody. I had written down a little poem, and it was a little abstract, the lyric, but it makes sense about the butterfly because it’s “tears turn into swimming pools, pearls are dreams coming true…” And then Ashley says, “Yellow rose in bloom.” So, we all contributed to the lines and the feelings, because they could understand what I was saying, because they love her too.
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