Shelby Lynne

Thank you, Barry Manilow!

by Whit Hill

posted 12/1/2008

Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien was, of course, Dusty Springfield. Shelby Lynne is, of course, Shelby Lynne. The intersection of these two singers—one a phenomenally popular beehive-haired, blue-eyed-soul chanteuse of the British Invasion, the other an in-your-face, risk-taking, frail but steely darling of America’s alt-country world—can be heard in

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