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Unfortunately, Me didn't turn into a commercial success, nor did it turn into the legendary album Memphis would become. In the liner notes for the The [Dusty Springfield] Anthology, Rob Hoerburger, who said Mes songwriting "wasn't quite up to the mastery of the Memphis set" (um, bullshit?), suggested that it's "afterhours music made by musicians for one another's sake," with "the Philly boys uncoiling their sweet grooves and insistent riffs, and Dusty singing, shoes off, hair down, make-up smudged, a couple of drinks past midnight, landing in that place somewhere between sobriety and inebriation where you can't help bumping into your true self."
The ironic kick in the ass is that's the feeling [Shelby Lynne] brings across beautifully on [Lovin]'. There isn't a performer who wears her heartache more vividly than Lynne, and she revives these tunes as boozy ballads for the lost and lovelorn. She sings tunes like "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" with all the sad, spurned melancholy of a gal singing and twirling around in her living room, glass of wine in one hand, framed picture of her man in the other, wondering where it all went wrong while the words help ease the pain.See the full content of this document
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There was an issue I had to take up with Shelby Lynne when I interviewed her not too long ago about her newest album Just a Little Lovin', a collection of covers from the late Dusty Springfield. It's an issue I had to...
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