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Article: Lyle's Large Band: Lovett & Believe It
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- The Washington Post
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- February 24, 1989
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NO WONDER THEY don't know what to do with Lyle Lovett down in
Nashville. Here's this Texas A&M hooker with Soho hair, , a
first-class anti-rhinestone writer with a crooked flatland humor and
a country voice so pure it earns him a Grammy nomination - and then
he follows that up with a half-croon, half-country swing album that
makes him out to be the Music City version of Buster Poindexter. Or
Warren Zevon. Or Rickie Lee Jones. Who knows?
On "Lyle Lovett and His Large Band," Lovett turns to country
music's cousins, swing and bordello blues (cousins infinitely closer
to true country music than the formula jingle-pop passing now), and
proves to be both funnier and wiser than, say, Steve ...