--- description: Shelby Lynne title: Music: Love, Shelby image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Music: Love, Shelby by [Benjamin Nugent](/author/benjamin-nugent/) Nov 12, 2001 5:00 AM CUT by [Benjamin Nugent](/author/benjamin-nugent/) Nov 12, 2001 5:00 AM CUT Not even Lynne’s vaunted Alabama twang is much in evidence on this dead-center-of-the-road pop record. The down-home girl has hooked up with city-boy studio wiz Glen Ballard, producer of Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill, and put her big, gritty voice to work for his more-is-more orchestrations. Both for better and for worse, her vocals have become the icing on his sugary vanilla layer cake of strings, guitars, keyboards and marching-band drum fills. His adornments make some of Lynne’s performances, like a cover of John Lennon’s Mother, feel dipped in lead; and others, like the ballad Wall in Your Heart, in certified gold. –B.N. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6665217/music-love-shelby/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6665217/music-love-shelby/"},"headline":"Music: Love, Shelby","datePublished":"2001-11-12T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-22T06:00:23.414Z","description":"Shelby Lynne","url":"https://time.com/archive/6665217/music-love-shelby/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Benjamin Nugent","url":"https://time.com/author/benjamin-nugent/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6665217/music-love-shelby/","name":"Music: Love, Shelby"}}]}] ```