I really like this album and think its a very good album. More generally, it has several songs that are hit songs and/or that are just enjoyable to listen to such as Wall in Your Heart. The music is excellent and enjoyable to listen to, the lyrics honest, clever. Its just a really heartfelt album. More personally, it is one of the few albums by female solo artists that I (a male)feel like the singer is singing love songs to me, and the songs feel genuine-like she really wanted to convey that to the listener. So, the Love Shelby title really fits for a lot of the album. The album is a gift from the artist. The songs sound so heartfelt, I don't think its fair to label the album a pop album. I'll confess I don't mind heavy production with music, and, for me the production on some songs (meaning multiple guitar and keyboard (and vocal?) tracks), and certain portions/arrangements of songs that are probably included because they are naturally pleasing -- this stuff added to the enjoyment for me. The key with this album production wise is that the genuineness and excellent songwriting of the artist is already there, and the production just improves the song - as opposed to creating its appeal or masking the deficiency of the song. I think its a great album, and I really appreciate it from the artist.

The negative press for this CD is bogus, and difficult to comprehend. If you liked I am Shelby Lynn, then you'll like this. It's basically I am Shelby, Part 2. It breaks no new ground, but who cares? Love, Shelby is a very nice mix of pop and soul confections, far superior to the vast majority of dreck out there. Leave it in the CD player in your car for a few days. After 5 or 6 listenings, you'll be hooked.

Shelby Lynn's no Lucinda Williams as a lyric writer (of course, it seems that Lucinda isn't either anymore), but her voice is still marvellous. There's only one howler, the painful Melissa Etheridge-imitation, "Jesus on a Greyhound", but that's why God created CD's, just skip over it, as you do the one stinker on I am S.L. (the last song, you know the one, Shakespeare?! auugghhh). Of course, the ... cover "art" is also a serious mistake; whose idea was THAT, I wonder? Maybe that's what has upset the music press. Whatever, they don't seem to have listened to the CD more than once, or perhaps they didn't like I am Shelby Lynn either.

Really don't feel like getting into a debate over

whether Shelby should be a soul diva or a pop vocalist

or a country sweetheart, who cares, one thing she

can sing the hell out of a song and she has one of

the most beautiful, aching voices. I'm glad she's

getting herself out there and taking some chances,

country's tight format shut her out years going, its

nice to hear this music. I loved her last collection

and I'm getting into this new stuff, I love "Wall in

your heart", the Raitt R&B ish "Ain't it the truth",

"Killin' Kind" a great song, "Jesus on a Greyhound"

is growing on me, "All of a sudden" like "Bend" have

some great interesting arrangements. Good thing we

all have such different opinions!

Shelby Lynne has gone and done it again, she's reminded me why I have been a fan of hers for 10 years and will be a fan forever.

It took a few spins to get my head into this album but now I can't stop playing it.

The second song Bend is one of the best, if you listen closely you can hear the happiness in Shelby's voice, it shows through in her performance.

Buy this album in the long run you won't be sorry.

I have been a Shelby Lynne fan since long before she won her Grammy with "I Am Shelby Lynne". Indeed, I had already bought three of her CD's before that "breakthrough" was achieved.

On my first listen to "Love, Shelby" I was as disappointed as many of the reviewers who have posted here. I thought the material lacked substance and her voice was too pedestrian. There does seem to be a lot of Shelby talking rather than singing. On further review, however, I have come to appreciate this outing almost as much as "I Am Shelby Lynne." She is a fantastic vocal stylist, and much of the material is every bit as edgy as ususual. And, as usual, she defies categorization. Frankly, I was shocked that my local music store had her under Country Music.

This is a first rate CD, showing yet more facets of an extremely talented musician and singer.