The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter returned to Nashville to find a community of women determined to resurrect her career.
Shelby Lynne is sitting on the couch next to her collaborator and friend Karen Fairchild, who’s supposed to be promoting a greatest hits project from her own popular country vocal group, Little Big Town. And yet, here Fairchild is talking up the new music Lynne’s made, specifically Lynne's fluent transitions between poetically bluesy spoken passages and handsome, stirring hooks.Lynne responds with appreciation for what Fairchild’s mere presence does for her own creativity.
Lynne has her own theory of why the arrangement’s working. “ better to understand what it’s like than another artist?”I haven't ever thought of myself as anybody but an old, grouchy Alabama woman that sings pretty good,” she says with a hint of mischief in her steely, blue eyes. “I never liked the business. When we started working, I had a paper trail that would scald a dog.”
After a decade of chafing against the control of the men who ran the Nashville music industry, she left for the West Coast, leaving plentiful lore behind. And out there, she wrote a revelatory southern soul and pop album, and titled it like a proper introduction:That’s what got her Lynne the Grammy. But with that success, industry pressure only increased. And the media pried into her personal life, which she resisted with all of her might.
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