Lyle Lovett and His Large Band explained

Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
Type:studio
Artist:Lyle Lovett
Cover:Lyle Lovett and His Large Band.jpg
Released:January 25, 1989
Length:40:55
Label:MCA/Curb
Producer:Billy Williams, Lyle Lovett, Tony Brown
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Lyle Lovett and His Large Band is Lyle Lovett's third album, released in 1989.[1] [2] [3] Lovett won the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for the album.[4]

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

The album incorporated more of a big band-influenced sound than Lovett's previous albums.[3]

Chart performance

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

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." 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."[5] 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."[6]

Track listing

All tracks composed by 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 Know You Know" – 3:57
  6. "What Do You Do/The Glory of Love" (Billy Hill, Lovett) – 3:06
  7. "I Married Her Just 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 Is Enough" – 4:26

Personnel

Charts

Year-end charts

Chart (1989)Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[7] 34
Chart (1990)Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[8] 68

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lyle Lovett | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  2. Web site: 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. Christian Science Monitor.
  3. Web site: RECORDINGS; Wayward Notes From a Distant Country Cousin (Published 1989). Peter. Watrous. February 5, 1989. NYTimes.com.
  4. Web site: Lyle Lovett | Artist | www.grammy.com.
  5. Web site: Lyle Lovett . Trouser Press . November 5, 2020.
  6. Web site: The Thinking Man’s Cowboy. Matt. Dellinger. The New Yorker.
  7. Web site: Top Country Albums – Year-End 1989. Billboard. December 26, 2020.
  8. Web site: Top Country Albums – Year-End 1990. Billboard. December 26, 2020.

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