Music CD - Shelby Lynne: Just A Little Lovin'

	Music CD: Just A Little Lovin' Artist: Shelby Lynne List Price: $13.98 Our Price: $7.49 Your Save: $ 6.49 ( 46% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Lost Highway
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Tracks: 1. Just A Little Lovin' 2. Anyone Who Had A Heart 3. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me 4. I Only Want To Be With You 5. The Look Of Love 6. Breakfast In Bed 7. Willie And Lauramae Jones 8. I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore 9. Pretend 10. How Can I Be Sure
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0602517448254 Label: Lost Highway Manufacturer: Lost Highway Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Lost Highway Release Date: 2008-01-29 Studio: Lost Highway
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: A sonic disaster... Comment: What should have been Ms. Lynns finest recording is instead, a sonic disaster. Beautiful music and stunning, heart felt vocals are grossly overwhelmed by loud, annoying, non-musical rumblings of BOOM...THUMP THUMP... BOOM, not unlike the noise you'll hear from motor vehicles driven by youngsters. Except for the final track, How Can I Be Sure, I find this recording mostly unlistenable. Customer Rating: Summary: Flawless Comment: This recording was conceived, arranged, engineered, and performed at such a high level that the music is transcendent. In the original, these songs poured out of my Bakelite plastic radio from the AM airwaves like maple syrup - good, but sticky sweet. Lynne has rendered them down to the salty essence and showed us exactly why they endure. Customer Rating: Summary: Just a little soul would have helped Comment: This offering from Shelby Lynn is, I'm afraid, just a little boring. It offers songs previously recorded by Dusty Springfield but there's no real other similarity between the two singers. Dusty's performances are full of depth, power, and emotion; this album offers unchallenging musical arrangements and musicianship and some fairly unexciting vocal performances. There are a couple of bright spots - "Just a Little Lovin'", "Willie and Lauramae Jones", and "I Don't Want to Hear it Anymore" seem to hit Lynne's sweetspot and are worth repeated listens; the remainder of the songs seem to have no depth and come and go without the listener even noticing that one song has ended and the next begun, almost like a small combo playing background music at a dinner party. If you just enjoy Shelby Lynne's voice you will enjoy the album, as her voice is undoubtedly the focus although there are no risks taken and little energy flows from most of the performances. Otherwise this album is hard to recommend. Customer Rating: Summary: Wonderfull CD Comment: I really enjoyed and still enjoy this wonderful CD. Nice voice full of warmth which brings back a lot of memories from the sixties. Customer Rating: Summary: Breathtakingly Stunning!!!! Comment: I purchased this CD the MOMENT it was released, based on how much I admired the talents of the late..and GREAT Dusty Springfield. It's very didfficult for any artist to take CLASSIC tunes such as these, and make them their own,but Shelby Lynne has done just that. Her phrasing and emotion put her her the catagory of the late Patsy Cline, AND that's a tough act to follow!!! Bravo to Lost Highway Records for having the foresight to release this CD. I only hope they will continue to support it by releasing some of the cuts to the Jazz..and AC stations..Since the CD was released so early in the year, we wouldn't want it to be forgotten when the Grammys are announced..This one should be right up there in front!!! A masterpiece!!!!! Ken Kostyra More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: It's a risky move for any singer to attempt a direct ascent on the towering peaks of Dusty Springfield's evergreen legacy. (Rolling Stone once called Dusty in Memphis the third most "essential" rock album by a woman.) Just a Little Lovin' achieves the unlikely: a tribute to an immortal artist which both glorifies its subject and elevates the worshipper kneeling at her altar. Lynne's 2001 breakthrough, I Am Shelby Lynne, was both utterly fresh and nostalgically infused with a Memphis-like spirit. Much of Just a Little Lovin' is as familiar as an old pair of shoes. Lynne's original contribution, "Pretend," fits snugly between the classics, but it's the loose, practically improvised vibe of this recording that breathes new life into Bacharach and David's "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and, especially, Randy Newman's "I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore." Genius producer Phil Ramone lends the entire collection the kind of intimacy he brought to Paul Simon and Billy Joel's most atmospheric 1970s recordings. Restrained instrumentation--often simply guitar, upright bass, a sprinkling of piano, and light percussion--turn even the teenage bubble-gum anthem "I Only Want to Be with You" into a sultry meditation. It's hard to imagine another recent album more successful in melding retro-reverence with contemporary moderation. The result arouses emotion even as it enchantingly relaxes. --Ben Heege