Lyle Lovett (album)

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Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett debut.jpg
Studio album by
Lyle Lovett
Released1986
RecordedChaton Recordings, Scottsdale, Arizona
Genre Country [1] [2]
Length32:30
Label MCA/Curb
Producer Tony Brown, Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett chronology
Lyle Lovett
(1986)		 Pontiac
(1987)
Singles from Lyle Lovett
  1. "Farther Down the Line"
    Released: September 1986
  2. "Cowboy Man"
    Released: October 1986
  3. "God Will"
    Released: 1986
  4. "Why I Don't Know"
    Released: 1986
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [1]
MusicHound Rock 4/5 bones [3]
Robert Christgau B+ [2]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 7/10 [5]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]

Lyle Lovett is the 1986 debut album by American singer Lyle Lovett. By the mid-1980s, Lovett had already distinguished himself in the burgeoning Texas singer-songwriter scene. He had performed in the New Folk competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival in 1980 and returned to win in 1982. [7] In 1984, he recorded a four-song demo with the help of the Phoenix band J. David Sloan and the Rogues [8] and his music had begun to be distributed by the Fast Folk Musical Magazine [9]

Contents

Nanci Griffith had recorded Lovett's "If I Were the Man You Wanted" as "If I Were the Woman You Wanted" for her 1984 album, Once in a Very Blue Moon . He appears on that album as a vocalist and can also be seen in the picture on the cover of her subsequent album Last of the True Believers (1986).

Critical reception

Lyle Lovett was ranked No. 91 in Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums of the 1980s, [10] and both Velvet [11] and the Italian magazine Il Mucchio Selvaggio also listed it as one of the top 100 albums of the decade.[ citation needed ] Allmusic compares the album to Steve Earle's Guitar Town , calling it, "one of the most promising and exciting debut albums to come out of Nashville in the 1980s." [1] Robert Christgau described Lovett's debut as: "Writes like Guy Clark, only plainer, sings like Jesse Winchester only countrier." [2]

Track listing

All songs by Lyle Lovett, except "This Old Porch" by Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen.

  1. "Cowboy Man" – 2:48
  2. "God Will" – 2:13
  3. "Farther Down the Line" – 3:05
  4. "This Old Porch" – 4:16
  5. "Why I Don't Know" – 2:41
  6. "If I Were the Man You Wanted" – 3:57
  7. "You Can't Resist It" – 3:08
  8. "The Waltzing Fool" – 3:49
  9. "An Acceptable Level of Ecstasy (The Wedding Song)" – 3:30
  10. "Closing Time" – 3:43

Personnel

Musicians

Production

Artwork

Charts

Chart performance for Lyle Lovett
Chart (1986)Peak
position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [12] 14

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Mark Deming, Allmusic (link)
  2. 1 2 3 Robert Christgau, Consumer Guide (link)
  3. ↑ Durchholz, Daniel (1999). "Lyle Lovett". In Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel (eds.). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide (second ed.). Detroit: Visible Ink Press. p. 695. ISBN   1578590612.
  4. ↑ Rolling Stone Album Guide, USA, 1992, 2004
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2002). "Lovett, Lyle". The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise Fourth ed.). London: Virgin Books. p. 776. ISBN   1852279230.
  7. ↑ "Kerrville Folk Festival Finalist History", compiled by Doug Coppock (link Archived February 20, 2006, at the Wayback Machine )
  8. ↑ Lyle Lovett profile, from the Richard De La Font Agency, Inc. (link)
  9. ↑ "Fast Folk and Coop Database", compiled by Steven Alexander, 2002 (link)
  10. ↑ "The 100 Best Albums of the 1980's". Rolling Stone. No. 565. November 1, 1989.
  11. ↑ Velvet, 1990 (according to rocklistmusic.co.uk (link)
  12. ↑ "Lyle Lovett Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved August 20, 2023.
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