I Am Shelby Lynne and Other Non-Truths
I’m not good company to have around. That’s why I made friends with all my CDs over the years. They don’t seem to mind.
We got home from visiting family last night and I was exhausted. I’m out of cigarettes — okay, more accurately put I’m taking another unpleasant vacation from smoking. I worked all weekend. I was in a foul mood, so I wandered off towards my office to listen to some music. I started with Knopfler because I’ve been enjoying him all weekend, but it was soon clear he was not a fit for my mood at which point I dusted off my recently purchased copy of I Am Shelby Lynne.
It was the perfect fit for my declining mood. It was also a self-fulfilling prophecy. Since buying my receiver/speakers, I’ve never been able to get the left speakers to stay consistently “on.” Speaker wire and speaker ‘posts’ — or whatever those fuckers are called — are an evil invention.
A team of fucking engineers has put this thing together so that no one can actually get speaker wire to the intended location. If you accomplish that, it all gets undone in the process of turning the receiver back around. I spent an hour fucking with that. It almost came down to a blowtorch, superglue, and a hammer. TheWifeToWhomI’mMarried suggested I just stop messing with it. Yeah, right. I was bound and damn determined to hear “Why Can’t You Be?” in its stereo glory. My mood fell too far too fast to enjoy it, but sometime around 11:15 I finally got sound from both speakers and listen to “Why Can’t You Be?” I did. Twice. I then trudged down the hall and cursed bitterly.
Now for the funny part. My turntable should arrive tomorrow. Lay odds that in the process of hooking it up to my receiver I won’t somehow undo the fuckin’ speakers. This is why I’m the only man in Alabama who doesn’t own a firearm.
I’ve been listening to I Am Shelby Lynne all morning. I’m still not, but I love this record.
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Good choice. Shelby Lynne rocks! And yeah, I think she beats Norah and Sarah. So there.
She doesn’t, but you can think that.
It’s no shame to finish behind Norah and Sarah, and this record is a pretty fantastic one. I’ve listened to “Why Can’t You Be” a minimum of 12x today (it has to be a lot more than that, come to think of it).