Concert preview: Shelby Lynne

Shelby Lynn

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Shelby Lynne performs on Friday, April 23, at Great American Music Hall. 8:30 p.m., $22; 885-0750 or www.gamh.com

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Equipped with a sultry voice merging raw anguish and assured elegance, Alabaman Shelby Lynne is a performer who transcends stylistic classification. She began her career in mainstream country music, sang jazz-influenced torch songs long before it became hipster territory, then evolved into sultry Southern R&B and Sheryl Crow–like pop. Major labels frequently frown on such protean proclivities; hence her new album, Tears, Lies, and Alibis, is on her own label, Everso. Lynne wrote and produced classic pop, jazz, gospel, R&B, and country for Tears. She is virtually a style unto herself, an American original.