content: It's much too early to call I Am Shelby Lynne a classic, but one thing is for certain: The album is *classical* in its approach.The most obvious sign of the album's retrogressive angle is the recording -- blurred, with tons of echo (a sound evoking Buffalo Springfield's "Expecting to Fly" and Phil Spector's works), and arranged to the max. Lynne's voice and singing technique aren't quite pure pop/soul, given her country influences (bearing in mind that many old-school female pop singers also dabbled in country), but it's a unique flavour. Sometimes I'd rather hear Lynne's voice break out of the generally very dense arrangements; occasionally the production drowns her out in waves of guitars and strings.Quite a rush, though, and very catchy.