MUSIC

Home > MUSIC > Shelly Fairchild

• Tweet
• Outlook
• ICAL
• PRINT
• Email
• Feedback

• RSS

• Official Website
• Add to My Favorites

Shelly Fairchild

Presented by 3rd and Lindsley Bar and Grill at 3rd and Lindsley Bar and Grill

November 11, 2011

Add Review/Comment
Comment on Facebook

Shelly Fairchild instantly wowed critics with her 2005 recording debut, "Ride," which spawned the Billboard Hot Country Songs top 40 hit "You Don't Lie Here Anymore." Now the ferocious stage performer is ready to blow them away once again with "Love Everybody," the first single from her new record, Ruby's Money. The new album—due April. 11 on Revelation Nation Records—is set to transform the sound... of modern soul.

Fairchild's fans hand-picked "Love Everybody" as the introductory single for its infectious, anthemic quality and earth-shaking rhythms. Think of it as a gospel revival on hydraulics that's rocket-fueled by rock/funk outfit Ruby's Money, and a no-bullshit diva who superbly channels Janis Joplin's fierce spirit. "I didn't want to be preachy because I'm not that way as a musician or a person," Fairchild says. "But it's basically saying that if I let go of the things that I fear about someone or something, then it gives me a chance to open up to loving everybody and loving everything and really just leading from a place of love as opposed to a place of fear or hate or animosity."

Her collaborations with hit songwriter Stephony Smith (author of such cuts as Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's "It's Your Love" and Kenny Chesney's "Big Star") for new album "Ruby's Money" would fit right alongside a radio playlist of CeeLo Green's "Fuck You," Lenny Kravitz's "It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over" and Amy Winehouse's "You Know I'm No Good." For instance, Fairchild gets a little political on "Here's Your Box," which explores how "we're supposed to be so free, but we're really sort of not during different administrations." "Hallelujah, You've Been Blessed" is exactly the full-throttle, four-on-the-floor soul revival its name implies, where Fairchild emits heart-stopping caterwauls that could resurrect the dead. She can also dial things down to smolder on the groove-filled blues of "Like I Tried To"—"It's a ballad, and it's just a beast," Fairchild says of the song, which climaxes with a lengthy band jam.