Lynne signs with Rounder
Thursday, August 21, 2014 – Shelby Lynne signed with Rounder Records with a new album coming earl8y n ext year, the label announced today.
Rounder will release "I Am Shelby Lynn:" in a deluxe reissue with bonus tracks and a full concert DVD, "Shelby Lynne: Live at the House of Blues" on Oct. 7 to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the release.
Lynne recently completed recording at Louisiana's Dockside studio on what will be her first album since 2011's "Revelation Road." The as-yet-untitled album is tentatively set for release in early 2015.
The two-disc (one CD/oneDVD) "I Am Shelby Lynne Deluxe Edition" features the re-mastered full-length album plus six previously unreleased bonus tracks from the original sessions.
The DVD is a newly unearthed, never-before-released, 16-song, 90-minute concert performance captured at Los Angeles' House of Blues on April 28, 2000.
Lynne will commemorate the the deluxe set with a special live performance at Largo at the Coronet in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Oct. 8.
"I'm very happy to have a creative home with history-making Rounder Records," Lynne said.
"Shelby Lynne is a songwriter and a soul singer of the first rank. The immediacy of feeling she is able to summon in the studio is a rare form of artistry. Working with her is an exhilarating experience," said Scott Billington, veteran producer, musician, and Vice President of A&R at Rounder.
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I Can't Imagine
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The ironies surrounding Shelby Lynne's sixth album, 1999's "I Am Shelby
Lynne," were as thick as mutant kudzu at the time. After a quintet of
albums that garnered Lynne a ton of peer respect and negligible sales, the
singer/songwriter extricated herself from a Nashville star machine that
seemed determined to sculpt her talent in its witless image.
Lynne moved to California, reinvented herself as herself, enlisted the talents of producer Bill Bottrell »»» |
Revelatiom Road Deluxe Edition
It's been 14 years since Shelby Lynne released her soulful, country-tinged album "I Am Shelby Lynne." And over the course of that time, Lynne has had her share of ups and a few creative downs. However on this latest (reissued here with bonus tracks, a live club recording and a second live disc from London plus a DVD about the making the disc), Lynne tends to go into another soulful but equally roots-y realm on the opening title track. It's not a surprise she taps into this »»» |
Editorial: Walking the talk –
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Concert Review: Rising Appalachia buck the mainsteam, and that's fine with them –
Rising Appalachia would not be accused of being in the musical mainstream. Not too many bands who combine folk and Appalachian sounds with new world music could possibly be.
And that suits the sister-led duo of Chloe Smith and Leah Song just fine. In fact, at one point, Chloe made it clear she did not embrace radio play as a sign of success... »»»
Concert Review: Bingham plays with something to prove –
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