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"A deep-South tribute to Dusty Springfield"
The voice of Alabama songstress Shelby Lynne is an addictive thing, whether applied to classic or contemporary country, pop, R&B, or any other style she's favored since coming on the scene in Nashville in the 1980s. But until now she's never channeled a figure really in tune with her own feelings and thinking. That's changed with the release of "Just a Little Lovin'," Shelby's tribute to the great English soul singer Dusty Springfield. Suggested by none other than Barry Manilow, the album is breathtakingly spare and vulnerable. People calls it "an uncannily perfect marriage of singer to material," and England's Independent, in a rave review, says that "Shelby's strategy on her Dusty covers is akin to the renovation of antique furniture, with the melodramatic orchestrations stripped away to reveal the bare emotional core of each song, whose clean surfaces are then given the thinnest waxing of subtle instrumental tints."
Opening the show are The Abrams Brothers.
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