Sometimes I feel like these Random Weekends are part of a stealth marketing campaign by music studios that have tapped into my iTunes account.

Shelby Lynne pops up today, with a track from her 2005 album Suit Yourself, and it prompts me to see what she’s been up to recently. Lo and behold, she has a new, self-titled, album that dropped less than a month ago. So I listened to a couple of tracks from that record, a release I would have known nothing about if not for the Random iTunes Fairy.

That happens a lot, when a Random Weekend selection prompts me to discover that an artist has a new release either upcoming or just out.

I guess the truth is most artists keep plugging away, even when they’ve fallen out of the public consciousness. Lynne had a few years in the late 90s and early 00s where she made a splash (that’s when I first started listening) but she’s been under the radar since, even while putting out seven albums.

Whatever the reason, I’m happy to have my blog play whatever small role it can in bringing attention to Lynne’s new, and old, material.