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Infobox musical artist| name = Shelby Lynne| image =| caption = Shelby Lynne (2010)| image_size = 75 x 75| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Shelby Lynn Moorer| birth_date = birth date and age|1968|10|22| origin = Quantico, Virginia , United States | instrument = voice, guitar| genre = Country music|Country , Pop music|pop , Rock and roll|rock | occupation = singer-songwriter| years_active = 1988present| label = Epic Records|Epic (19881992) Morgan Creek / Mercury Records|Mercury (19931994) Magnatone Records|Magnatone / Curb Records|Curb (19951996) Island Records|Island (19982002) Capitol Records|Capitol (20032006) Lost Highway Records|Lost Highway (20072009) Everso (2010present)| associated_acts =| website = http://www.shelbylynne.com/ www.shelbylynne.com Shelby Lynne (born Shelby Lynn Moorer , October 22, 1968, Quantico, Virginia ) is an United States|American singer and songwriter . The success of the 1999 album I Am Shelby Lynne led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist , even though she had been active in the music industry for some time. She released a Dusty Springfield tribute album called '' Just a Little Lovin' (Shelby Lynne album)|Just a Little Lovin' in 2008. Since then she has started her own independent record label, called Everso Records, and released three albums: Tears, Lies and Alibis , Merry Christmas , and Revelation Road .
Biography
Early life
Shelby Lynne was born in Virginia but grew up in the small town of Frankville, Alabama , near Chatom, Alabama , where she attended Washington County High School. Music was an important part of the Moorer family.cite web | url= http://www.npr.org/2010/12/15/132082946/shelby-lynne-and-allison-moorer-musical-sisters | title=Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer: Musical Sisters | publisher=NPR | date=December 15, 2010 Her father, who worked as an English teacher and a juvenile corrections officer, played the guitar, while her mother was a singer. Her father also drank a lot and eventually became abusive. In August 1986, when Lynne was 17, her father shot and killed her mother and then himself.cite web | url= http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Lynne-t.html | title=Shelby Lynne's Dusty Trail | author=Hoerburger, Rob | publisher= The New York Times | date=January 13, 2008 She and her younger sister Allison Moorer subsequently moved in with relatives.
Early career
Lynne appeared on The Nashville Network|TNN 's country music show Nashville Now in 1987. She soon landed a recording contract with Epic Records . Her first recording for Epic was a duet with George Jones , "If I Could Bottle This Up", which became a top-50 hit in 1988. Epic teamed Lynne with producer Billy Sherrill for her 1989 debut album Sunrise (Shelby Lynne album)|Sunrise . The follow-up, 1990's Tough All Over (Shelby Lynne album)|Tough All Over , took more of a mainstream country direction, and 1991's Soft Talk found Lynne moving into slick country-pop .
Lynne placed several songs on the country charts during this period, but none managed to break into the top 20. Critics generally regarded her as a promising talent, and she won the Academy of Country Music|ACM 's Top New Female Vocalist in 1990.
However, she was tiring of the lack of control she was afforded over her image and musical direction. She split from Epic and signed with the smaller Morgan Creek label, debuting with 1993's Temptation (Shelby Lynne album)|Temptation , an exercise in Bob Wills -style Western swing and big band jazz. The label folded not long after, and she moved on to Magnatone for 1995's Restless (Shelby Lynne album)|Restless , which marked a return to contemporary-style country. Afterward, Lynne disappeared from recording for several years.
Breakthrough
Lynne moved to Palm Springs, California in 1998.cite web | url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,996707,00.html | title=Music: Blows Against The Empire | author=Thigpen, David E. | publisher= TIME | date=April 24, 2000 For her next record, she worked with producer and songwriter Bill Bottrell . The result was the confessional and eclectic alternative country album I Am Shelby Lynne . "That album came from the most vulnerable, desperate place," she recalled years later. "I think about it every day." Island Def Jam released the album in England during the fall of 1999 and then in the U.S. the following year, to wide critical acclaim.cite web | url= http://articles.latimes.com/2001/feb/18/entertainment/ca-26778 | title=She Had Such High Hopes | author=Hilburn, Robert | publisher= Los Angeles Times | date=February 18, 2001 At the 43rd Grammy Awards , held on February 21, 2001, she won the award for Grammy Award for Best New Artist|Best New Artist . "Thirteen years and six albums to get here," said Lynne during her acceptance speech.cite web | url= http://edition.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/21/grammy.night.04/ | title=Steely Dan, Faith Hill, Eminem, U2 each win 3 Grammys | author=Allen, Jamie | publisher=CNN | date=February 22, 2001
Her 2001 follow-up album Love, Shelby was produced by Glen Ballard and featured a slicker, more pop-influenced sound. The album received mixed reviews. One of the songs, "Killin' Kind", also appeared on the soundtrack of the film '' Bridget Jones's Diary (film)|Bridget Jones's Diary .
Lynne took a more low-key approach on her next effort. Identity Crisis (Shelby Lynne album)|Identity Crisis was self produced, recorded largely in her home studio and with few additional musicians. Many of the 12 tracks focused on dark themes, but there were also lighter songs such as "One With the Sun" (inspired by a conversation she had with Willie Nelson ).cite web | url= http://archives.nodepression.com/2003/09/this-years-model/ | title=This year's model | author=McCall, Michael | publisher= No Depression | date=SeptemberOctober 2003 The album found a home on Capitol Records and was released in September 2003. The critics gave her high marks; AllMusic's Thom Jurek wrote, "There is no identity crisis here, just the indelible mark of a mature, intense, always engaging artist."cite web | url=Allmusic|class=album|id=r651182|pure_url=yes | title=Identity Crisis > Overview | author=Jurek, Thom | publisher=Allmusic Suit Yourself (2005) also received praise from critics. However, neither record was commercially successful.
Recent career
Her album '' Just a Little Lovin' (Shelby Lynne album)|Just a Little Lovin' , released in early 2008 by Lost Highway Records, paid tribute to the late British singer Dusty Springfield . The producer was Phil Ramone , who had worked with Springfield on " The Look of Love (1967 song)|The Look of Love ". Just A Little Lovin''' became the highest charting album of Lynne's career, reaching number 41 on the Billboard 200. In a review for Entertainment Weekly , Marc Weingarten wrote that the album "is a stark reminder of Lynne's empathetic skill as an interpreter".cite web | url= http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20166944_20166960_20175495,00.html | title=Just a Little Lovin' | Music Review | author=Weingarten, Marc| publisher= Entertainment Weekly | date=February 1, 2008
Following a dispute with Lost Highway, Lynne started her own label, called Everso Records. "I plan on taking advantage of my freedom and working hard and putting out a lot of records," she said in an interview.cite web | url= http://www.billboard.com/news/shelby-lynne-plots-own-course-with-tears-1004086103.story | title=Shelby Lynne Plots Own Course With 'Tears' | author=Graff, Gary | publisher=Billboard.com | date=April 23, 2010 The first release was her album Tears, Lies and Alibis (2010). She followed up later that year with the holiday album Merry Christmas , featuring such classics as "Christmas Time Is Here" and "O Holy Night". The third and most recent release is Revelation Road (2011), on which she played all the instruments.cite web | url= http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/148772-shelby-lynne-revelation-road/ | title=Shelby Lynne: Revelation Road | author=Horowitz, Steve | publisher=PopMatters | date=October 20, 2011
Additional projects
Lynne performed the John Lennon song "Mother" at '' Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music '' in October 2001 and at Theatre Within's 30th annual Lennon tribute in November 2010.cite web | url= http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2010/11/15/2010-11-15_john_lennon_concert_brings_out_cyndi_lauper_patti_smith_aimee_mann_for_30th_year.html | title=John Lennon concert brings out Cyndi Lauper, Patti Smith, Aimee Mann for 30th year at Beacon Theater | author=Farber, Jim | publisher= NY Daily News | date=November 15, 2010
She has worked professionally with Allison Moorer. On Moorer's live album Show , released in 2003, Lynne performed three duets with her sister. Lynne wrote "She Knows Where She Goes", one of the songs featured on Moorer's 2008 album Mockingbird . The two sisters performed five concerts together during what they called the Side by Side tour. The concerts took place from October through December 2010 in San Francisco, New York, Virginia, and Alabama.cite web | url= http://www.countrystandardtime.com/news/newsitem.asp? xid=4490 | title=Lynne, Moorer tour together for first time | publisher=Country Standard Timecite web | url= http://blog.al.com/entertainment-press-register/2010/12/lynne_moorer_take_saenger_stag.html | title=Lynne, Moorer take Saenger stage 'side by side' at last | author=Specker, Lawrence F. | publisher=Mobile Press-Register | date=December 4, 2010
In 2002, she sang a duet with Raul Malo (formerly of the Mavericks) on his first solo-album Today . The song is titled "Takes Two To Tango". In 2004, Lynne was featured in a duet version of alternative rock band Live (band)|Live 's song "Run Away." This rendition can be found on the band's greatest hits compilation Awake: The Best of Live . In 2007, she performed background vocals on Marc Cohn 's fourth album, Join the Parade . She contributed to Forever Cool , a 2007 album from Capitol/EMI featuring contemporary artists in duets with the late Dean Martin . Alongside Big Bad Voodoo Daddy , Lynne performed a duet of one of Martin's best known tunes, "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You".
She also joined the 9th and 10th annual The Independent Music Awards|Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians' careers. http://www.independentmusicawards.com/ima_new/imajudges2010.asp Independent Music Awards - 9th Annual Judges
Lynne has taken on a few acting roles. She portrayed Johnny Cash 's mother Carrie in the 2005 film Walk the Line . She appeared in a 2009 episode of the Lifetime (TV network)|Lifetime drama series Army Wives as a country singer trying to reunite with her son. She played herself in an episode of the Starz (TV channel)|Starz comedy series Head Case .
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Sunrise
Release date: 1989
Label: Epic Records
Tough All Over
Release date: 1990
Label: Epic Records
Soft Talk
Release date: 1991
Label: Epic Records
Temptation
Release date: July 6, 1993
Label: Mercury Records|Mercury / Morgan Creek Productions|Morgan Creek
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php? storyId=14967498 Shelby Lynne on NPR Music
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