I Love Everybody

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I Love Everybody
Lyle Lovett-I Love Everybody.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSept 27, 1994
RecordedAug 31 1993 - Jan 12, 1994
Length52:41
Label Curb/MCA
Producer Lyle Lovett & Billy Williams
Lyle Lovett chronology
Joshua Judges Ruth
(1992)
I Love Everybody
(1994)
The Road to Ensenada
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Audio [2]
New York Times (favorable) [3]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Stereo Review (favorable) [5]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 6/10 [6]

I Love Everybody is the fifth album by Lyle Lovett, released in 1994. The album consists of Lovett's early songs penned prior to the recording of his first album, Lyle Lovett (1986). [1] [4]

Contents

On the 8th track, "Record Lady," Lyle refers to college friend and fellow musician, Robert Earl Keen.

...Robert Earl, he's a friend of mine
You know he's always looking out for my best interest...

Several songs prominently feature one or more of Lovett's trademark penchants: wry humor ("Sonja"), playful surrealism ("Penguins"), cod misanthropy ("They don't like me"), and disturbing frankness ("Creeps Like Me"). Even the album's title, ("I Love Everybody"), is ironic.

Lovett's wife at the time, Julia Roberts, provides backing vocals on several tracks. Other performers lending their voices include Rickie Lee Jones and Leo Kottke.

"Ain't It Something" would later be rerecorded, in a longer form, for Lovett's soundtrack to the 2000 film Dr. T & the Women .

Track listing

All songs by Lyle Lovett, except "Fat Babies" by Lyle Lovett and Eric Taylor

No.TitleLength
1."Skinny Legs"2:42
2."Fat Babies"2:54
3."I Think You Know What I Mean"3:05
4."Hello Grandma"2:35
5."Creeps Like Me"2:14
6."Sonja"2:00
7."They Don't Like Me"2:34
8."Record Lady"4:11
9."Ain't It Somethin'"2:14
10."Penguins"2:31
11."The Fat Girl"2:00
12."La to the Left"3:20
13."Old Friend"3:13
14."Just the Morning"4:23
15."Moon on My Shoulder"2:20
16."I've Got the Blues"3:34
17."Good-Bye to Carolina"3:28
18."I Love Everybody"3:39

Personnel

Production notes

Chart performance

Chart (1994)Peak
position
Canadian RPM Top Albums40
New Zealand Albums Chart36
UK Albums Chart54
US Billboard 20026

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References

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