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Shelby Lynne

Identity Crisis  Hear it Now

RS: 3of 5 Stars

2003

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Shelby Lynne, like K.D. Lang and Willie Nelson before her, is making a career out of freeing country from its own constrictions. With Identity Crisis, she tears the form down to its roots -- acoustic guitars, touches of old gospel and blues, and a gorgeously bummed, torchlit ambience. "Lonesome" is a soulful echo of Patsy Cline, but most of the album is more like "I'm Alive," where Lynne speed-drawls a hard lyric over roiling gusts from a vintage keyboard. The elegantly disconsolate "If I Were Smart" could be a grainy black-and-white noir about a woman who has finally quit smoking but still gets in fistfights with bad men.

PAT BLASHILL
(RS 934, October 30, 2003)



(Posted: Oct 8, 2003)

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