Influential country singer/songwriter Shelby Lynne announced a new solo tour, taking a step away from performing with her younger sister, Allison Moorer, who she released an album and toured with in 2017. The 15-date tour kicks off Feb 23 in Natrick, Mass. and takes Lynne cross-country through the end of April.
Believe it or not, 17 years have passed since Shelby Lynne won the GRAMMY for Best New Artist at the 43rd GRAMMY Awards on the strength of her fresh musical synthesis on I Am Shelby Lynne, which infused rock, R&B, and pop elements into a country-crossover blend that hit big. But Lynne's recording career had begun well before that with a string of albums in the 1990s. In all, her 13 career studio albums have provided fans with a steady stream of her catchy yet authentic brand of pop-country.
Most recently, Lynne recorded an album with Moorer called Not Dark Yet featuring an eclectic mix of cover versions of songs by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Merle Haggard, Jason Isbell with Amanda Shires, The Killers, Nirvana, Townes Van Zandt, and the title track by Bob Dylan. The album's close is its only original song, co-written by Lynne and Moorer, called "Is It Too Much."
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"When I was inspired to do it, I was thinking all about her," Lynne told Rolling Stone. "The lives we lived, where we live and work, the choices we make, the things that we don't have control of, the things that we've never had control of. When I look at her and we sing together, I love her so much that I just was moved to write something that I knew she would understand."
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Lynne released her most recent solo effort in 2015, I Can't Imagine, and now the singer returns to the road solo, playing theaters across the U.S. For a full list of dates and ticket information, visit her website.
