Lyle Lovett - It's Not Big It's Large
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Artist: Lyle LovettEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-08-28
Music Label: Lost Highway
Soundtracks:
- Tickle Toe
- I Will Rise Up / Ain't No More Cane
- All Downhill
- Don't Cry A Tear
- South Texas Girl
- This Traveling Around
- Up In Indiana
- The Alley Song
- No Big Deal
- Make It Happy
- Ain't No More Cane
- Up In Indiana (acoustic)
Music reviews of It's Not Big It's Large
Music Review: A Return to the Lyle sound of the 90's
Rating: 5 Stars
"It's Not Big It's Large" will be a breath of fresh air to any Lyle Lovett fan, starved for new music from the gifted Texan, who had been an insanely original blend of not quite country, not quite jazz and not quite blues. Lyle has not had a new release since 2003's "My Baby Don't Tolerate," his first release on the Lost Highway label. "Tolerate" was a solid, if unspectacular effort that managed to peak at #7 on the C&M charts largely because of the re-release of two earlier Lovett standards, "San Antonio Girl" and "The Truck Song" as well as the lively "Cute as a Bug."
Lovett had four definitive efforts from 1986 to 1996, "Pontiac," " Lyle Lovett and His Large Band," "Joshua Judges Ruth" and "The Road to Ensenada" before veering off in a different direction, one that I tolerated (no pun intended) because it was Lyle but a direction I did not like nearly as well. "It's Not Big" represents a return to that early 90's Lovett sound that I found to be so original and refreshing.
Lovett's Large Band was always tight, and this CD is no different. Returning from "Ensenada" are the backbone of the Large Band, bass player Vicktor Krauss, guitarists Mitch Watkins and Dean Parks, cello player John Hagan, mandolin player Sam Bush, drummer Russ Kunkle, Matt Rollings on keys and the sweet harmonies of Sweet Pea Atkinson and Francine Reed. These performers have lost nothing and continue to form a sweet blend of blues, jazz and country that almost no one else I know can pull off.
This CD had me hooked from the opening riffs of Tickle Toe, which takes you back to the jazz influences of 1989's Lyle Lovett and His Large Band. "Make it Happy" will remind you of "Church" from the "Joshua" album. And "Travelling Around" seems to be influenced by one of my favorite Lovett cuts "If I Needed You." "No Big Deal" is Lovett at his jazzy-bluesy best, and "Ain't No More Cane" recalls Lovett's spiritual influences. There are two versions of "Up in Indiana "on this CD, the latter an acoustic bluegrass version that features some incredible dobro, fiddle and mandolin playing that will have you tapping your feet. The Alley Song is a soft ballad that will take you back to the title track of "Ensenada."
All in all, this CD will likely not go down as his very best effort, but when all is said and done I will clump this CD with the four albums described earlier as albums all Lyle Lovett fans will want to own.
Description of It's Not Big It's Large
While music should be and is open for interpretation by the listener, Lovett's new album, IT'S NOT BIG IT'S LARGE, suggests notions of mortality, loss and the fluidity of time. In many of the songs, the past intrudes on the present and the narrator finds strength to deal with the travails of today by putting them into historical perspective. That sounds like heavy-going, but its Lovett's gift to make the deep thoughts slide down like honey.On his sophomore effort for Lost Highway (and first release in four years), Lyle Lovett tests the label's free-spirited reputation with an eclectic slate of songs that range from fervent country swing through gospel-blues, though the core here finds the Texas singer-songwriter in a decidedly quiet, introspective mood. Anchored by a vibrant, swinging take on Lester Young's "Tickle Toe," his big band's first sprawling instrumental workout in many a year, Lovett quickly segues into the intriguing gospel-blues of the "I Will Rise Up/Ain't No More Cane" medley before shrewdly contemplating the backside of life and fame's inevitable grade on "All Downhill from Here" and the weary "This Traveling Around." The plaintive grace of "Don't Cry a Tear" and "The Alley Song" hauntingly blurs genre boundaries, while "South Texas Girl" does a little quiet Tex-Mex retrenchment. Lovett celebrates his 50th year here with a muse that's ever restless, yet still spry enough to relish the simple, varied joys of the buoyant "Up in Indiana" (also featured in a stripped-down acoustic version), the bluesy "No Big Deal," and the gospel-meets-carnal playfulness of "Make It Happy" before another fervent, elegiac version of "Ain't No More Cane" brings the album full-circle. --Jerry McCulley
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