Long before Chappell Roan picked up the nickname of “your favorite singer’s favorite singer,” that was how people thought of Shelby Lynne, the Alabama-bred singer-songwriter who long ago reset the bar for voices that expressively explore the crossroads between country and soul. Her 2000 breakthrough album “I Am Shelby Lynne” helped win her the best new artist Grammy, though in truth she’d had a long career before that, making her way through the Nashville system from her teen years on, and certainly has been active since, pursuing an ever-more-independent career outside of any pop or country mainstream.
Lynne claims she thought her record-making days were more or less done
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