Lyle Lovett
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Report and Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 18 December 1986
A year after The New York Times ran its obit, country music is stronger than ever, thanks to artists like Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakam and ...
New Country: Banjoing the Roy Rogers Image
Report and Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 27 March 1987
It may have had a hard time persuading people to take it seriously but, as Adam Sweeting reports, country music is winning ...
Nashville Cats: Country Music In 1987 - Goldmine Or Shaft?
Report and Interview by Simon Witter, i-D, June 1987
Simon Witter travelled to Nashville to find out if there's any substance to the media'slatest rediscovery. ...
Lyle Lovett: Lovett and Leave It
Profile and Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 4 March 1988
Lyle Lovett is top of the country charts but the laid back Texan has no intentions, he tells Adam Sweeting, of ending up on the treadmill ...
Review by Holly Gleason, Musician, April 1988
LYLE LOVETT represents a new voice in Nashville: the quirky country songwriter who believes that even cowboys get the blues. Consequently, this Texan's viewpoint can ...
Lyle Lovett: Lyle Lovett and His Large Band (MCA/Curb) ****
Review by Holly Gleason, Rolling Stone, 9 February 1989
LYLE LOVETT has always been a little bit schizophrenic. A Nashville musician with big-band leanings, Lovett has somehow managed to gracefully walk the line between ...
Lyle Lovett: The Singer Who Argues With God
Profile and Interview by Mark Cooper, Daily Telegraph, 27 March 1992
Lyle Lovett's latest album gives a contemporary twist to the Old Testament, says Mark Cooper ...
Lyle Lovett: Joshua Judges Ruth (MCA)
Review by Michele Kirsch, Select, May 1992
LOVETT CALLS this his "gospel death" album — partly because there's a long song about how fun funerals are, how you get to see all ...
Profile and Interview by Mark Cooper, Q, May 1992
Confusion and uncertainty are Lyle Lovett's middle names. Is he country? Or is he blues, or gospel, or swing? What the hell, he decides, "They're ...
Lyle Lovett: Roxy, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 1992
Lovett and Band Stretch Beyond Country's Borders ...
Lyle Lovett & his Large Band: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 16 June 1992
Journey into odd country ...
Lyle Lovett and his Large Band: The Orpheum Theater, Boston MA
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 19 October 1992
Lovett serves up a sassy mix of country, blues and rock ...
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, March 1994
IT'S HARD to believe, but this is Julia Roberts’s first ever appearance on The Tonight Show, the live American chat show to end all chat ...
Lyle Lovett: The World's Greatest Lover
Interview by Mal Peachey, Country Music International, September 1994
Dour of face, frizzy of hair, sharp of wit. He came from Texas, wrote the song, played the guitar and got the girl. Now he's ...
Lyle Lovett/Joe Ely/Guy Clark/John Hiatt: State Theatre, Cleveland
Live Review by Holly Gleason, No Depression, 30 April 2007
YOU HAVE TO start at the end – where they paid respects to Townes Van Zandt, the songwriter/compadre who captured the essence of life after ...
Retrospective and Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, November 2009
DAMN THAT Lyle Lovett, he sure is one elegant gent. While this R2 writer, in a Prada or Armani suit, would look plain guilty, Lovett ...
Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 29 February 2012
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN Leonard Cohen and Bob Wills lies the Promised Land inhabited by Lyle Lovett, who balances elegantly broken romanticism with loose-jointed swing that shuffles ...
Five Years That Revolutionized Country Music
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2019
THE COUNTRY MUSIC situation in 1985 was so dire that The New York Times published an article that, if not quite an obituary, was a ...
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