Sunday, January 5, 2025

Ain't it somethin' (Lyle Lovett) (LP 3029)

Lyle Lovett  I Love Everybody (CD, MCA Records, 1994) ***  

Genre: Country

Places I remember: Another one from Shona Walding

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Just The Morning

Gear costume: Record Lady

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5

Active compensatory factors: I wouldn't normally buy an album by Lyle Lovett, not that I have anything against him, just that I prefer my country like Dwight Yokam.

This is a bit of a weird one in his catalogue - it's his fifth album but it consists of his early songs written prior to the recording of his first album.

I don't know enough about his work to consider this as better or worse than others. It's an interesting, stripped back set of songs including some wry observations and some great musical accompaniment.

Lyle has a nice and easy, laconic delivery that sells these songs well. I bet it sold a truckload!!

Where do they all belong? A one-off. As I said, I'm more of a Dwight guy.

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