I Can't Imagine

Perhaps the most beautifully crafted and intensely affecting set of songs since her landmark I Am Shelby Lynne in 2000, I Can't Imagine is powered by Lynne's lustrous vocal performance, indelible, illuminating songwriting, and the sympathetic, versatile playing of her top-flight band.

To record I Can't Imagine, the Virginia-born, Alabama-bred Lynne - who has lived in Southern California for the last 16 years - returned to the South, to the intimate Dockside Studio in Maurice, Louisiana. As she has on four of her last five albums (the exception being the memorable 2008 Dusty Springfield tribute Just a Little Lovin', helmed by the late Phil Ramone), Lynne produced the new album herself.

Fiercely independent, forever authentic and thoroughly original, Shelby Lynne inhabits the same space in American music shaped by such like-minded musical renegades as Neil Young, Gram Parsons, Bobbie Gentry, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. Fifteen years following the release of her breakthrough album I Am Shelby Lynne, (recently reissued by Rounder) she remains an artist in full creative command. Shelby Lynne's I Can't Imagine is an inspired work of purity and depth, sure to be one of 2015's most essential recordings.