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Title: Move over, Lucinda. There's a new sheriff in town.
Review: Unless an avalanche of incredible music comes out in the last 7 months of the year, Shelby Lynne's Suit Yourself is assured a place in my top ten. I never really got all the hoopla surrounding her 2000 release I Am Shelby Lynne. I thought it was too produced, and too close to Nashville's new country dreck, despite the protestations of bamboozled alt.country critics eager to claim her as one of their own. Suit Yourself finally makes good on that call. Gone is the shimmering reverb and the studio shellac, and it their place we have down-home back-porch blues, solid roots rock, country/folk and old school R&B crooners. Simple, good music. Lucinda Williams, move over. There's a new sheriff in town.
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