Lyle Lovett - Step Inside This House

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

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.

Description of Step Inside This House

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• Music > Styles
• Folk
• Pop