Shelby Lynne - Revelation Road

Shelby Lynne - Critically-praised, tough-minded alt-country indie queen handled the writing, recording, producing and arranging on this new stripped-down album she's calling her "most personal"...did we mention it's also on her own label? // Release: Revelation Road (October 18, Everso) // Sounds like: with a voice that emits both weary, hard-ridden resolve and loosely restrained tenderness, Lynne is capable of making her lyrics both brutally honest and disarmingly fragile...there's a remarkable soulfulness in her leather-and-whisky drawl, even in her most revealing and defiant moments...recorded in a stark, mostly acoustic setting, the songs of Revelation Road are indeed a revelation, the work of a grounded, masterful song craftsman who can still flirt with high art smarts when she's in the mood...

Quote: “I just wanted to do something that was so damn real. The heartbeat of the song has to come through.” What we like: "I Don't Need A Reason to Cry" is classic Lynne on so many levels, able to take a emotional, near-heartbreaking vulnerability and shoot it through with a demanding, steel-willed strength...we can't help but think of Lynne's amazing Dusty Springfield tribute (2008's Just a Little Lovin') when we hear the soulful simmer of the title track -- how can something this effortless pack such a feeling of coiled tension?...Killer lyric, too: "And when the show is over, You’re where you started from, Collecting all the barbs you threw piled up to be disposed"...

Shelby Lynne - "Revelation Road" (from Revelation Road)

Shelby Lynne - "I Don't Need A Reason to Cry" (from Revelation Road)