| Am I Alone in This? Bill Bottrell in the January 2001 New Settler |
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where the continent begins, where the rivers end. BILL: I think so. And it did! I never did anything like this in Los Angeles. The river is always there. It's a powerful reminder. So vast. So powerful. I have lines like that, too, on Shelby Lynne's album: "I'm heading west to find the edge of life itself." Who is Shelby Lynne? - this is your Alabama album . . . I know neither Sheryl Crow or Shelby Lynne - and I don't think I'm alone in this. BILL: Sheryl Crow is a big, big, big success. And still is since '92 when I first worked with her. Shelby Lynne is struggling to do that for herself. I finished her record quite some time ago, she's out there now promoting it. She was a country singer from Nashville. I guess we did what you |
might call 'coastal music' and we did much of it here, and some of it in Alabama. It's a highly critically acclaimed album, but it's not catching on commercially. Does it have a Stokeman sound to it? . . . BILL: No. It's a soft, real authentic white soul country sound. People send me tapes all the time. Shelby sent me a tape and I liked one song on it, and I called her then and she came out to LA and met with me, and a couple of months later came to Albion and we wrote a song or two. Her record company is very embarrassed that they haven't been able to sell the album because the critical acclaim is saying it's Album of the Year - that's Robert Hilburn of the LA Times. But it's a modern record as opposed to a post-modern record - as |