When Shelby Lynne went into the studio to record her latest album Tears, Lies and Alibis there was one major difference. The label she recorded it for was her own newly established Everso Records. I got a chance to ask Lynne about recording an album for her own label. “Well, I get a lot more done. And I get along with whoever works for my label, because there’s only two of us,” Shelby Lynn laughed.
Of course, Tears, Lies and Alibis is not the only album that has been keeping Lynn busy as of late. She also recorded the opening track on Peter Wolf’s new album “I always thought that Wolf was a great..one of the great front men of the great rock era.” Shelby Lynne said, when she spoke of the duet. “He’s a trip. He’s a good, good guy.”
When it comes to Tears, Lies and Alibis, she insists that there was no specific inspiration behind the album. “Just life…Making albums is what I do, “ Lynne said simply, “They’re all different. They’re like little journeys each time.”
Of course, having listened to the album, I had to ask the one really, truly burning question in my mind, “Do you own an Airstream?”
“No, I do not,” Shelby Lynne replied. “Trying to find the right one, actually, is a serious matter. I want to have the right one. I can’t decide if I want to get a new one or go vintage. I think it’s more than the Airstream, it just represents beautiful things and Americana romance.”
I asked her about some of those little journeys that were involved in the making of Tears, Lies and Alibis. “Rains came was inspired by a rainstorm out here in the desert. Like a Fool was just a little throwaway song that I scribbled down in ten minutes after writing something else and never thought it would become a song. Alibi I don’t know who that songs about, but it’s some kind of story in me that I had to write. I don’t know, I just try to play the role. They all have their innocence, you know, and then you try to go with the muse let it become something worthy.”
At the time of the interview Lynne had just become an Aunt. Of course she looked forward to the same things all new aunts do. “Just spoiling him and loving him,” she drawled.
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