The May Steet Project
The question "Didn't Shelby Lynne's album come out last year?" dies away within minutes of putting on this confident debut. Skillfully doing the postmodern rag with styles ranging from Stax R&B ("Last Time") to thumping trance ("Clutch") to a Ronstadt/Neville-style team-up with Ron Sexsmith on the shiversome plea "Always," Seger sounds like she's been slinking to this odd beat all her life.