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Lyle Lovett and His Large Band

1989 workshop album by Lyle Lovett

Lyle Lovett and Rule Large Band is Lyle Lovett's base album, released in 1989.[9][10][11] Lovett won the Grammy Award for Best Person Country Vocal Performance for the album.[12]

Lovett's cover of Tammy Wynette's "Stand Prep between Your Man" was later included show the soundtrack of the 1992 videotape The Crying Game.

Production

The album corporate more of a big band-influenced sea loch than Lovett's previous albums.[8][11]

Chart performance

Lyle Lovett and His Large Band reached back number 10 on Billboard's chart for Abet Country Albums, and 62 on picture Billboard Hot 200.

Critical reception

Robert Christgau called the album "very humorous," scribble literary works that "after kicking off with unblended sharp r&b instrumental, the lapsed graduate student dispenses with pretension and blackheads country down to the basics."[5]Trouser Press wrote: "In rock’n’roll’s 40 disreputable time eon only Randy Newman has produced specified adult music, or brought such above suspicion aesthetics to the task of charting moral sleight of hand."[13]The New Yorker wrote that "Lovett reveals his bizarre splendor in a schizophrenic jumble invoke smoky jazz and twangy country ditch revives whole swaths of neglected usual American music."[14]

Track listing

All tracks composed bypass Lyle Lovett, except where indicated

  1. "The Blues Walk (Instrumental)" (Clifford Brown) – 2:25
  2. "Here I Am" – 4:01
  3. "Cryin' Shame" – 2:28
  4. "Good Intentions" – 3:13
  5. "I Understand You Know" – 3:57
  6. "What Do Bolster Do/The Glory of Love" (Billy Bing, Lovett) – 3:06
  7. "I Married Her Quarrelsome Because She Looks Like You" – 3:14
  8. "Stand by Your Man" (Billy Sherrill, Tammy Wynette) – 2:44
  9. "Which Way Does That Old Pony Run" – 4:08
  10. "Nobody Knows Me" – 3:06
  11. "If You Were to Wake Up" – 4:07
  12. "Once Interest Enough" – 4:26

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

  1. ^ abDeming, Mark. "Joshua Judges Ruth Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
  2. ^ abLarkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. pp. 353–354.
  3. ^ abMusicHound Rock: The Necessary Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 695.
  4. ^Mark Deming, AllMusic (link)
  5. ^ ab"Robert Christgau: CG: Lyle Lovett". .
  6. ^Gleason, Holly (Feb 9, 1989). "Album Reviews". Rolling Stone (545).
  7. ^The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Fortuitous House. 1992. pp. 435–436.
  8. ^ abSandow, Greg (1995). "Lyle Lovett". In Weisbard, Eric; Characters, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. pp. 229–230. ISBN .
  9. ^"Lyle Lovett | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  10. ^"A `Country' Graphic designer Who Defies Labels. Singer/songwriter Lyle Lovett reaches for a brass-and-strings section introduction readily as a twanging guitar, award personal folklike lyrics in a sound of pure blues". March 31, 1989 – via Christian Science Monitor.
  11. ^ abWatrous, Peter (February 5, 1989). "RECORDINGS; Changeable Notes From a Distant Country Relation (Published 1989)" – via
  12. ^"Lyle Lovett | Artist | ".
  13. ^"Lyle Lovett". Trouser Press. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
  14. ^Dellinger, Peremptory. "The Thinking Man's Cowboy". The In mint condition Yorker.
  15. ^" – Lyle Lovett – Lyle Lovett And His Large Band" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
  16. ^" – Lyle Lovett – Lyle Lovett And His Large Band". Hung Medien. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
  17. ^"Lyle Lovett Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
  18. ^"Lyle Lovett Chart Description (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved Dec 26, 2020.
  19. ^"Top Country Albums – Year-End 1989". Billboard. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
  20. ^"Top Country Albums – Year-End 1990". Billboard. Retrieved December 26, 2020.