Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
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| Released | January 25, 1989 | |||
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| Length | 40:55 | |||
| Label | MCA/Curb[2] | |||
| Producer | Billy Williams, Lyle Lovett, Tony Brown[3] | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| Robert Christgau | B[5] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [2] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [3] |
| Rolling Stone | [6] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [7] |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 8/10[8] |
Lyle Lovett and His Large Band is Lyle Lovett's third album, released in 1989.[9][10][11] Lovett won the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for the album.[12]
Lovett's cover of Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" was later included in the soundtrack of the 1992 movie The Crying Game.
Production
[edit]The album incorporated more of a big band-influenced sound than Lovett's previous albums.[8][11]
Chart performance
[edit]Lyle Lovett and His Large Band reached number 10 on Billboard's chart for Top Country Albums, and 62 on the Billboard Hot 200.
Critical reception
[edit]Robert Christgau called the album "very humorous," writing that "after kicking off with a sharp r&b instrumental, the lapsed grad student dispenses with pretension and boils country down to the basics."[5] Trouser Press wrote: "In rock’n’roll’s 40 disreputable years only Randy Newman has produced such adult music, or brought such irreproachable aesthetics to the task of charting moral sleight of hand."[13] The New Yorker wrote that "Lovett reveals his weird splendor in a schizophrenic jumble of smoky jazz and twangy country that revives whole swaths of neglected popular American music."[14]
Track listing
[edit]All tracks composed by Lyle Lovett, except where indicated
- "The Blues Walk (Instrumental)" (Clifford Brown) – 2:25
- "Here I Am" – 4:01
- "Cryin' Shame" – 2:28
- "Good Intentions" – 3:13
- "I Know You Know" – 3:57
- "What Do You Do/The Glory of Love" (Billy Hill, Lovett) – 3:06
- "I Married Her Just Because She Looks Like You" – 3:14
- "Stand by Your Man" (Billy Sherrill, Tammy Wynette) – 2:44
- "Which Way Does That Old Pony Run" – 4:08
- "Nobody Knows Me" – 3:06
- "If You Were to Wake Up" – 4:07
- "Once Is Enough" – 4:26
Personnel
[edit]- Lyle Lovett - vocals, guitar
- Richard Bennett – guitar
- Paul Franklin - steel guitar
- Ray Herndon - guitar
- Deschamps Hood - guitar, background vocals
- Billy Williams - guitar
- Matt Rollings - piano, Hammond organ
- Ben Stivers - piano
- Leland Sklar - bass
- Andy Laster - sax
- Steve Marsh - sax
- Paul Leim - drums
- John Hagen - cello
- Mark O'Connor - fiddle, mandola
- David Ball - background vocals
- Rodney Crowell - background vocals
- Walter Hyatt - background vocals
- Mac McAnally - background vocals
- Francine Reed - background vocals
- Harry Stinson - background vocals
- Russ Kunkel - drums
- Warren Hood - Fiddle/Violin
Charts
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Weekly charts[edit]
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Year-end charts[edit]
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References
[edit]- ^ a b Deming, Mark. "Joshua Judges Ruth Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
- ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. pp. 353–354.
- ^ a b MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 695.
- ^ Mark Deming, AllMusic (link)
- ^ a b "Robert Christgau: CG: Lyle Lovett". www.robertchristgau.com.
- ^ Gleason, Holly (Feb 9, 1989). "Album Reviews". Rolling Stone (545).
- ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 435–436.
- ^ a b Sandow, Greg (1995). "Lyle Lovett". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. pp. 229–230. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
- ^ "Lyle Lovett | Biography & History". AllMusic.
- ^ "A `Country' Artist Who Defies Labels. Singer/songwriter Lyle Lovett reaches for a brass-and-strings section as readily as a twanging guitar, offering personal folklike lyrics in a voice of pure blues". March 31, 1989 – via Christian Science Monitor.
- ^ a b Watrous, Peter (February 5, 1989). "RECORDINGS; Wayward Notes From a Distant Country Cousin (Published 1989)" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Lyle Lovett | Artist | www.grammy.com".
- ^ "Lyle Lovett". Trouser Press. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
- ^ Dellinger, Matt. "The Thinking Man's Cowboy". The New Yorker.
- ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Lyle Lovett – Lyle Lovett And His Large Band" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
- ^ "Charts.nz – Lyle Lovett – Lyle Lovett And His Large Band". Hung Medien. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
- ^ "Lyle Lovett Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
- ^ "Lyle Lovett Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
- ^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1989". Billboard. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
- ^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1990". Billboard. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
