Lyle Lovett (album)

Lyle Lovett
Studio album by
Lyle Lovett
Released1986
RecordedChaton Recordings, Scottsdale, Arizona
GenreCountry[1][2]
Length32:30
LabelMCA/Curb
ProducerTony Brown, Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett chronology
Lyle Lovett
(1986) 		Pontiac
(1987)
Singles from Lyle Lovett
  1. "Farther Down the Line"
    Released: September 1986
  2. "Cowboy Man"
    Released: October 1986
  3. "God Will"
    Released: 1986
  4. "Why I Don't Know"
    Released: 1986
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
MusicHound Rock4/5 bones[3]
Robert ChristgauB+[2]
Rolling Stone[4]
Spin Alternative Record Guide7/10[5]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music[6]

Lyle Lovett is the 1986 debut album by American singer Lyle Lovett. By the mid-1980s, Lovett had already distinguished himself in the burgeoning Texas singer-songwriter scene. He had performed in the New Folk competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival in 1980 and returned to win in 1982.[7] In 1984, he recorded a four-song demo with the help of the Phoenix band J. David Sloan and the Rogues[8] and his music had begun to be distributed by the Fast Folk Musical Magazine[9]

Nanci Griffith had recorded Lovett's "If I Were the Man You Wanted" as "If I Were the Woman You Wanted" for her 1984 album, Once in a Very Blue Moon. He appears on that album as a vocalist and can also be seen in the picture on the cover of her subsequent album Last of the True Believers (1986).

  1. ^ a b Mark Deming, Allmusic (link)
  2. ^ a b Robert Christgau, Consumer Guide (link)
  3. ^ Durchholz, Daniel (1999). "Lyle Lovett". In Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel (eds.). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide (second ed.). Detroit: Visible Ink Press. p. 695. ISBN 1578590612.
  4. ^ Rolling Stone Album Guide, USA, 1992, 2004
  5. ^ Sandow, Greg (1995). "Lyle Lovett". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. pp. 229–230. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
  6. ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2002). "Lovett, Lyle". The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise Fourth ed.). London: Virgin Books. p. 776. ISBN 1852279230.
  7. ^ "Kerrville Folk Festival Finalist History", compiled by Doug Coppock (link Archived February 20, 2006, at the Wayback Machine)
  8. ^ Lyle Lovett profile, from the Richard De La Font Agency, Inc. (link)
  9. ^ "Fast Folk and Coop Database", compiled by Steven Alexander, 2002 (link)