Shelby Lynne - Suit YourselfSUIT YOURSELF takes this approach and runs with it, often sounding more
like an impromptu late-night New York City singer/songwriter jam
session than a product of the Nashville machine. Lynne's jazzy, loose
vocal phrasing is in full effect, and her timbre is a bit huskier than
before (perhaps due to the cigarettes she's seen holding in some of the
album's photos). Many of the songs here have little to do with country
music at all, from the opener "Go with It," which sounds like a cross
between Badfinger and NO SECRETS-era Carly Simon, to "You're the Man,"
a sassy, straight-up Bessie Smith-style blues number. Kindred
genre-mixer Tony Joe White lends two excellent songs and his
multi-instrumentalist skills to the proceedings, which gives the album
an even rougher vibe. One of Lynne's strongest and most idiosyncratic
efforts, SUIT YOURSELF is the work of an artist truly coming into her
own.
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