Love, Shelby [Import]

Shelby Lynne | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 13, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Island
• ASIN: B00005QCQH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,335 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #93 in Music > Imports > Country

Editorial Reviews

SHELBY LYNNE Love Shelby (2001 US Island label issue 10-track CD album colour digipak picture sleeve complete with 19" x 14" fold-out poster!)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Album, January 7, 2005

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AndrewG - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love, Shelby (Audio CD)

I really like this album and think its a very good album. More generally, it has several songs that are hit songs and/or that are just enjoyable to listen to such as Wall in Your Heart. The music is excellent and enjoyable to listen to, the lyrics honest, clever. Its just a really heartfelt album. More personally, it is one of the few albums by female solo artists that I (a male)feel like the singer is singing love songs to me, and the songs feel genuine-like she really wanted to convey that to the listener. So, the Love Shelby title really fits for a lot of the album. The album is a gift from the artist. The songs sound so heartfelt, I don't think its fair to label the album a pop album. I'll confess I don't mind heavy production with music, and, for me the production on some songs (meaning multiple guitar and keyboard (and vocal?) tracks), and certain portions/arrangements of songs that are probably included because they are naturally pleasing -- this stuff added to the enjoyment for me. The key with this album production wise is that the genuineness and excellent songwriting of the artist is already there, and the production just improves the song - as opposed to creating its appeal or masking the deficiency of the song. I think its a great album, and I really appreciate it from the artist.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love, Shelby is a wonderful pop album, August 11, 2004

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J. F Palmer (Tucker, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Love, Shelby (Audio CD)

I really enjoyed this cd. Though her I am Shelby Lynne was more raw and more passionate, she chose to try something new with this cd. She tried to do catchier songs with more production and instrumentation, and she succeeded. A lot of people never gave her a chance because they were expecting I am Shelby Lynne Part 2. This is unfortunate. Jesus on a Greyhound, Killin Kind and Wall in Your Heart are excellent songs and the remaining songs are good as well.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shelby, Shelby, Shelby!!!, December 27, 2001

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"auburnprof" (Auburn, AL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love, Shelby (Audio CD)

The negative press for this CD is bogus, and difficult to comprehend. If you liked I am Shelby Lynn, then you'll like this. It's basically I am Shelby, Part 2. It breaks no new ground, but who cares? Love, Shelby is a very nice mix of pop and soul confections, far superior to the vast majority of dreck out there. Leave it in the CD player in your car for a few days. After 5 or 6 listenings, you'll be hooked.
Shelby Lynn's no Lucinda Williams as a lyric writer (of course, it seems that Lucinda isn't either anymore), but her voice is still marvellous. There's only one howler, the painful Melissa Etheridge-imitation, "Jesus on a Greyhound", but that's why God created CD's, just skip over it, as you do the one stinker on I am S.L. (the last song, you know the one, Shakespeare?! auugghhh). Of course, the ... cover "art" is also a serious mistake; whose idea was THAT, I wonder? Maybe that's what has upset the music press. Whatever, they don't seem to have listened to the CD more than once, or perhaps they didn't like I am Shelby Lynn either.