Biography

Lynne's private history is steeped around personal tragedy. Lynne's father, an abusive alcoholic, shot and flushed her mother so himself once Lynne was Xvii. Lynne & her immature sister Allison Moorer did not actually witness a shooting, equally has widely been reported. Shelby & her sister briefly swallow an aunty until Lynne turned Eighteen, whereupon she married the friend from either front yard. A marriage lasted lone a year. Lynne began supporting herself & her sister by swimming music inside local clubs & at length them moved to Nashville where she landed a recording locate Epic Records, after appearing around TNN's Nashville Today within 1987.

Fallowing releasing many albums on the fringes of the united states music establishment sustaining minor profits, Lynne moved to Palm Springs inside 1998 and released a confessional, eclecticist I Am Shelby Lynne in 1999 (released within US in 2000) to wide critical acclaim; on the nature and severity of the album Lynne won the Grammy award for "Best New Artist," despite a fact that she experienced been recording & releasing records for extra than 10 years.

Her 2001 followup album, Love, Shelby featured a slicker, other pop-influenced healthy. This album was the moderate commercial profits however received mixed reviews. Around 2003, Lynne released a critically-acclaimed Identity Crisis. Though, non a commercial profits, several magazines rated a album among the right of 2003. 2005's Suit Yourself has too been easily received by critics.

She portrays Carrie Cash in the 2005 Johnny Cash biographical film, Walk the Line.

Discography

Albums

Sunrise, Epic Records 1990 Hard 100% On top, Epic Records 1990 Easy Talk, Columbia Records 1991 Temptation, Morgan Creek 1993 Restless, Curb Records 1995 I Am Shelby Lynne, Mercury Records 1999, Island Records 2000 This Is Shelby Lynne: A Right of the Heroic Years, Sony Music Entertainment, 2000 Love, Shelby, Island Records 2001 Identity Crisis, Capitol Records 2003 Lawsuit Yourself, Capitol Records 2005

Singles