2025 Charity Shop Purchases #8 - Lyle Lovett - Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
I'm an admirer of the early work of Lyle Lovett from the late eighties/early nineties. Not that big an admirer right enough that I was prepared to pay north of £50 to see him perform recently at Celtic Connections.
I was happy enough, however, to pay a pound in a local charity shop to pick up a copy of his third album Lyle Lovett and His Large Band from 1989 on the MCA/Curb. According to a sticker on the back of the jewel case the previous owners were a couple from Netherlee.
It is Big Band meets Country with Wiki also adding the description of Country Swing which I suppose is pretty apt. Or as the New Yorker would have it Lovett reveals his weird splendor in a schizophrenic jumble of smoky jazz and twangy country that revives whole swaths of neglected popular American music
This trio from the third quarter of the album, including a Dolly Parton cover, are probably the pick of the bunch and are enough for it to be filed in the Country section.
Lyle Lovett - I Married Her Just Because She Looks Like You
Almost worth it for that first track. The second one here is a bit pointless
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