Lyle Lovett and His Large Band

Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
Studio album by
Lyle Lovett
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

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

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."[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

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

References

  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.