Step Inside This House

Lyle Lovett - Step Inside This House

Step Inside This House
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Artist: Lyle Lovett
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-09-22
Music Label: Mca
Accessories: Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Bears
  2. Lungs
  3. Step Inside This House
  4. Memphis Midnight/Memphis Morning
  5. I've Had Enough
  6. Teach Me About Love
  7. Sleepwalking
  8. Ballad Of The Snow Leopard And The Tanqueray Cowboy
  9. More Pretty Girls Than One
  10. West Texas Highway
  11. Rollin' By
Music CD 2
  1. Texas Trilogy: Daybreak
  2. Texas Trilogy: Train Ride
  3. Texas Trilogy: Bosque County Romance
  4. Flyin' Shoes
  5. Babes In The Woods
  6. Highway Kind
  7. Lonely In Love
  8. If I Need You
  9. I'll Come Knockin'
  10. Texas River Song

Music reviews of Step Inside This House

Music Review: A classic and a good introduction to Texan songwriting
Rating: 4 Stars

Lovett has been a very good pupil of the best Texan songwriters, but finally he did not develop a completely convincing and original voice, in spite of being a very good
songwriter and having a great voice. His cd fail to be as good as the best of Townes Van Zandt, or Rex Foster, or David Rodriguez.

This cd is a tribute to Lovett influences. And for me it is his most successful cd. He sings songs, known and obscure, as if they were the most urgent thing to do. His choice shows a deep knowledge of the Texas scene. Although Lovett was not born in
Austin, he spent many years there and build his career from this city.

The obvious choices are Townes Van Zandt ( 4 songs), Guy Clark, and Walter Hyatt (4 songs). Hyatt was Lovett's friend, a songwriter not very famous who passed away a few years ago in a plane accident. Lovett is the best performer of his songs, much
better than then original versions.

The less obvious choices are a song by David Rodriguez, "Ballad of the snow leopard", Rodriguez is one of the austinite songwriters, and he deserves a better attention from the US public, or at least a rerelease of all his previous cd's ( a few of them are available in Europe in the Brambus label).

The Steve Fromholz songs also work well in the hands of Lovett, and although his mane appears in the publications I had only heard some of his songs in compilations like the Kerrville Folk Festival. I should buy his cd's if I ever have enough $ to do it. This songwriter is in the same league as Van Zandt and G. Clark.

Eric Taylor is also represented in one song, another top ten austinite songwriter. It is nice to find also a song by one of the younger generation, Robert earl Keen. He may not be as great as the others, but he delivers his stuff.

The only problem I have with this two cd set is that it is roughly 85 minutes long.
There was room for 10 more songs and I am sure Lovett could have found ten more songs to cover. A waste of data. Or the music - 1 track could fit into one cd and make this cd less expensive.

I have liked Lovett's music over the years, but since this cd is in my collection, 3 years now, it is the one I go for, and I listen to it once in every full moon at least.

A classic.

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Description of Step Inside This House

Two CD set in a 'fat' double jewelbox. Thick booklet with lyrics and photos.
Lovett puts down his pen and applauds the work of fellow Texas songsmiths on this inviting dissection of his musical influences. Buttressed by the fluid work of acoustic pickers such as Jerry Douglas and Sam Bush, Lovett attaches his uptown drawl to the works of writers including Robert Earl Keen, Guy Clark, and Michael Martin Murphy as well as to a pair of Lone Star traditionals. Disc 2 is dedicated to two of Lovett's biggest mentors, Walter Hyatt and Townes Van Zandt. --Marc Greilsamer
The most mercurial of Texas singer/songwriters, Lyle Lovett has assembled a two-disc homage to mentors and fellow travelers--a homecoming of mixed emotions and uneven meditations on Texas land and soul. The first disc is the most spacious--including songs by Vince Bell, Guy Clark, Robert Earl Keen, and Michael Martin Murphy--while the second concentrates on Walter Hyatt and Townes Van Zandt (who died in 1996 and 1997 respectively). The meticulous and mostly acoustic layering of dobro, steel guitar, and piano sonically celebrates Lovett's Lone Star roots; his band even jaunts into western swing on Walter Hyatt's "Teach Me About Love." And Lovett's voice sounds warmly weathered with the respect and affection he has for the material. But the material is perplexing. Eric Taylor's "Memphis Midnight/Memphis Morning" never drives home its lonely impressions; selections from David Rodriguez and Willis Allen Ramsey never draw from the depth of those writers' imaginations (at least "Sleepwalking" is a rarity in Ramsey's small but legendary catalogue); and Steve Fromholz's "Texas Trilogy" never transcends aimless local color. But the two traditional pieces, "More Pretty Girls Than One" and "Texas River Song," number among the album's finest surprises. A similar grace and clarity animates both the title track--one of Guy Clark's most lambent but unrecorded compositions--and two of Van Zandt's greatest mysteries: "Highway Kind" and "Flying Shoes." --Roy Francis Kasten

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