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I Am Shelby Lynne
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83

Universal acclaim - based on 12 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
    91
    Even more than, speak of the devil, Garth Brooks, she's a creature of the recording industry and the smorgasbord-of-the-air it's laid out everywhere. Are the emotions she displays so pithily as synthetic in the end as her harmonica-with-strings or steel/slide guitar? Does that make them less real?
  2. Checkout.com
    90
    Her latest, I Am Shelby Lynne, is not a country record, but rather a graceful hybrid of roots rock influences and Muscle Shoals soul that adds up to one of the most intimate, earthy and adult pop-rock records in recent memory.
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  3. AllMusic
    90
    Luckily her sixth full release has some true charm, with some fine blue-eyed soul and slickly produced rock. But the production tries too hard to align her with Sheryl Crow's growling sound.
  4. Q Magazine
    80
    Stylistically, Lynne steps out in several directions and gives the impression that she could succeed in any of them: the warm caress of her voice and the cool, cutting edge of her songs suggest great things.
  5. Wall of Sound
    77
    There is much temptation in all of this, but little satisfaction. It all sounds like someone named Shelby Lynne, for her voice is impeccable throughout. But despite its title, the album comes no closer to suggesting who she might be than her previous outings have. And too few of the songs -- despite their technical virtuosity -- beg to be played over and again.
  6. HOB.com
    70
    The weaknesses of this ten song collection come in the occasional over orchestration found on some tracks that would do well in succumbing to the subtlety that Lynne and her producer Bill Bottrell have mastered in other spots.
  7. Salon
    60
    So why doesn't "I Am" quite hit the mark? Blame it on producer Bill Bottrell, best-known for his work with Sheryl Crow. Simply put, he lays it on a little too thick.

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  1. Monica
    Mar 9, 2011
    10
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  2. upperclasstwit
    Mar 5, 2016
    5
    I'm just rating this album to drop its score so that it stops cluttering up the top of the user's all time favorites page because, c'mon,I'm just rating this album to drop its score so that it stops cluttering up the top of the user's all time favorites page because, c'mon, we're not putting this at number one, are we?… Expand

Awards & Rankings

16
#16 Best Album of 2000