Remember that NYTM profile of Shelby Lynne and her perpetually stunted career? Where she comes off unapologeticly as a boozer? Where we learn that her dad shot her mom (and then himself) when Shelby was 17 and in the house with her sister (on her youth: “There’s nothing that happened to me in Alabama that wasn’t sad.”)? In the video above, a live duet with Sheryl Crow, I am guessing that she dressed herself.
I had forgotten somehow that Shelby Lynne is one of my most favorite people. She is performing at Carnegie Hall on 12/11, five days after Rickie Lee Jones (!!!).
Some highlights from the profile:
On lesbian rumors:
“I’ve done everything on every corner of the universe, but I’m not going to make an announcement about it.”
On … technology (?):
“I don’t have an iPod. I have a computer that I turn on occasionally. I still have all my vinyl. Sissy [her sister] says she has no room in her apartment for records, but I’d keep mine even if I had to sleep on them. You can’t roll a joint on an iPod.”
On keeping cute:
“I’ve been in this business 20 years and haven’t had a big hit record. And I’m still doing it. In another 20 years, I’ll still be doing it. I wouldn’t trade my life for what Carrie Underwood has. I’ll be 75, and someone will ask me to sing. And I’ll still be cute.”
How was I not already obsessed with this woman?!? Wonderful. Move over Carrie Fisher, new role model.
Just wanted to add that I love her song “Gotta Be Better”. Buy it!
