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Lyle Lovett and His Large Band

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Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 25, 1989
Genre
Length40:55
LabelMCA/Curb[2]
ProducerBilly Williams, Lyle Lovett, Tony Brown[3]
Lyle Lovett chronology
Pontiac
(1987)
Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
(1989)
Joshua Judges Ruth
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Robert ChristgauB[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 Guide8/10[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

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

Chart performance

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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

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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

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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

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Charts

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References

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  1. ^ a b Deming, Mark. "Joshua Judges Ruth Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
  2. ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. pp. 353–354.
  3. ^ a b MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 695.
  4. ^ Mark Deming, AllMusic (link)
  5. ^ a b "Robert Christgau: CG: Lyle Lovett". www.robertchristgau.com.
  6. ^ Gleason, Holly (Feb 9, 1989). "Album Reviews". Rolling Stone (545).
  7. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 435–436.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "Lyle Lovett | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  10. ^ "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.
  11. ^ a b Watrous, Peter (February 5, 1989). "RECORDINGS; Wayward Notes From a Distant Country Cousin (Published 1989)" – via NYTimes.com.
  12. ^ "Lyle Lovett | Artist | www.grammy.com".
  13. ^ "Lyle Lovett". Trouser Press. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
  14. ^ Dellinger, Matt. "The Thinking Man's Cowboy". The New Yorker.
  15. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Lyle Lovett – Lyle Lovett And His Large Band" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
  16. ^ "Charts.nz – 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 History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved December 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.