Tears, Lies, And Alibis
Original Release Date: April 20, 2010
Track Listing
Click on a song title below to view lyrics.
1. Rains Came (lyrics)
2. Why Didn’t You Call Me (lyrics)
3. Like A Fool (lyrics)
4. Alibi (lyrics)
5. Something To Be Said (lyrics)
6. Family Tree (lyrics)
7. Loser Dreamer (lyrics)
8. Old #7 (lyrics)
9. Old Dog (lyrics)
10. Home Sweet Home (lyrics)
What They Are Saying…
“Best of 2010 – Top Albums – #4 Tears, Lies And Alibis”
“Best of 2010 - Top Concerts – #4 Shelby Lynne, Dakota Jazz Club”
– Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Top 10 Best Albums of 2010 – #8, Tears, Lies And Alibis”
“Top 10 Concerts of 2010 – Shelby Lynne, Iron Horse Music Hall”
– Springfield Republican/MassLive.com
“Minimal and direct, nothing gets in the way of one of the finest American voices and her slap-you-in-the-face lyrics…the simplicity of ‘Something to Be Said About Airstreams,’ ‘Old Dog,’ ‘Like A Fool’ and the monumental ‘Old No. 7’ make for musical moments that are as emotionally riveting as anything that came out in 2010.”
houstonpress.com, #1 on Top 11 Obscure 2010 Albums
“When it comes to strong, independent musicians, they don’t come much more direct than Shelby Lynne. She made the kind of honest, straight from the heart record that she’s known for, and made it her way. Shelby Lynne is a beacon for those who insist on traveling their own road.”
popdose.com, #8, Ken Shane’s Top Albums of the Year
“…Lynne’s album is one of the most powerful new releases this year.”
– Washington Examiner
“Shelby Lynne makes you woozy, and you can’t help it. We prefer to think of her as indie as heck, as resolutely so as the band hiding away in the basement, making music it loves away from the prying eyes of The Man. The forearms have sinew, the voice is backed by steel and Lynne is in full control. Of everything.”
– Chicago Tribune
“her most personal release to date”
– The Huffington Post
“Tears, Lies and Alibis feels like a destination for Lynne; one she’s sought for her entire career, to balance her artistic instincts and ambitions with her talents as a songwriter, producer, and singer. Summoning the bravery to go it on your own is rare — especially for an established artist. To actually pull it off honestly, with taste and balance to boot, is rarer still.”
allmusic.com
“Lynne’s music explores a diverse range of genres and sounds. In a business that prefers its artists be a ready fit for categorization – all the better to secure airplay – Lynne doesn’t fit the mold. But her fans hardly care. Her latest release, Tears Lies and Alibis, is on her newly founded label, Everso Records, and will certainly not disappoint.”
LA Times Magazine
“‘Rains Came,’ which opens her 11th album, Tears, Lies & Alibis, struts along like Cheap Trick gone acoustic, but sad-hearted laments like ‘Loser Dreamer’ and ‘Home Sweet Home’ prove her songwriting is as strong as her vocals.”
Paste Magazine
“Ignoring contemporary formulas, ‘Tears, Lies, and Alibis’ is as bare-boned as Willie Nelson’s 1975 classic, ‘Red Headed Stranger,’ yet as relevant and heartrending as a divorce decree.”
– The Associated Press
“Tears, Lies, and Alibis…is Lynne’s return to painfully truthful, tell-it-like-it-is storytelling after 2008’s Just A Little Lovin’, her luminously ‘inspired’ tribute to Dusty Springfield.”
– nodepression.com
“…her strongest since 1999′s I Am Shelby Lynne”
– The Chicago Reader
“It’s a beautifully understated album of personal confessions, wandering thoughts and worldly observations, all rendered with the assurance of a naturally gifted vocalist…”
– American Songwriter, “Spotlight Album,” 4 ½ stars
“Her terrific, recently released set of originals…consolidates her strengths as a sly, soulful singer, classy songwriter and rootsy artist who refuses to be pigeonholed.”
– Creative Loafing Atlanta
“Lynne sounds utterly naked on ‘Like a Fool,’ a delicate ache of a song built on strummed acoustic and tolling baritone guitars, and completely fed up on ‘Family Tree,’ which rides a harder strum before erupting into a banjo-fueled coda…But after all the tears, lies, and alibis, she closes in anticipation of stillness and grace, singing of the balm of returning to ‘Home Sweet Home.’’’
– The Boston Globe
“It’s a sparse acoustic 10-song set that¹s beautiful and eclectic, from the perky opener ‘Rains Came’ to the moving ‘Alibi’ as well as the sweetly sincere ‘Something To Be Said,’ which is, amusingly enough, a song about airstream trailers.”
Curve Magazine
“On her newest release, Tears, Lies, and Alibis, the smoldering authenticity of Shelby Lynne’s voice is imprinted across an eloquent suite of self-penned songs, laid bare by stripped down production, and preserved on analog tape.”
– Music Connection