Last week, Wind Back Wednesday enjoyed an all too brief soak in the majesty that is Dusty Springfield’s Dusty In Memphis. The splendour that is Dusty can’t be touched. This is known. But Shelby Lynne, a woman without fear but with abundant talent and smarts, didn’t just touch, she dived headfirst into the songs of Dusty Springfield for 2008’s Just A Little Lovin’. It was a triumph then. It’s a triumph still. SHELBY LYNNE Just A Little Lovin' (Lost Highway/Universal) There is

SHELBY LYNNE Here I Am (Everso) The bold statements in album titles such as I Am Shelby Lynne and Here I Am, from singer/songwriter/actor and resolutely independent artist Shelby Lynne, are not chest beating declarations of some egomaniac who sees her presence as sufficient to render other views, other people, redundant. It’s not a case of Trumpian triumphalism akin to “come at me you pissants and minnows, I got the cash”. Instead they pretty much are Lynne saying here I stan

SHELBY LYNNE & ALLISON MOORER Not Dark Yet (Silver Cross) Sorry, there are no surprises here. Yep, everything is as good you would expect. Actually, maybe better. But even that’s no surprise. That Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer would sing well was a given. Each sister has the kind of voice that crosses back and forth between soul and old school country, between church and bar, between tough and tender. On top of this is that in the way of the cliché-that-often-enough-is-true

After a couple of decades of some of the finest country soul/roots, as solo artists, those most excellent sisters Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer release their first album together this week. Wind Back Wednesday steps into the furnace with Ms Lynne in 2003 (next week we’ll visit Ms Moorer) and emerges scorched but alive. I AM SHELBY LYNNE, AND YOU’RE NOT Shelby Lynne don’t take no shit. You can imagine this having been carved into park benches in Frankville, Alabama (on the T