{"id":5815,"date":"2012-04-25T08:57:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T15:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5815"},"modified":"2012-04-25T08:57:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T15:57:53","slug":"lyle-lovett-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/04\/lyle-lovett-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LYLE LOVETT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"LYLE LOVETT\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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One of America\u2019s great singer-songwriters marks the end of an era<\/strong><\/p>\n

Twenty-six years into his recording career, Lyle\u00a0Lovett is still amused by the attempts to categorize his music. \u201cEven\u00a0now, people who don\u2019t really listen to country music still think of\u00a0me as country, and people who listen to country don\u2019t,\u201d he says.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s an odd place to be.\u201d Odd perhaps, but Lovett can thank his\u00a0idiosyncratic nature for providing him with a singular edge that has\u00a0allowed him to appeal to a broad cross-section of fans. Armed with\u00a0perception, erudite lyrics and a sound that seamlessly integrated\u00a0blues, swing, folk, classic singer-songwriter balladry and, yes, country,\u00a0Lovett rocketed to fame in the late \u201980s as a major new talent.\u00a0Since then he has consistently broken boundaries, expanding and\u00a0refining his distinctive approach.<\/p>\n

Release Me<\/em>, Lovett\u2019s newest, is a milestone: his final album\u00a0for Curb Records, the label that has been his home since 1986.\u00a0If the title and cover art\u2014Lovett bound in ropes\u2014suggest a certain\u00a0glee in moving on, the truth is more nuanced. \u201cI\u2019ve had a great\u00a0relationship with the record company and feel proud of being with\u00a0them for all these years,\u201d says the Texas-born singer, songwriter and\u00a0actor, 54. \u201cBut I\u2019m excited about what might be next.\u201d\u00a0Filled with new songs, decades-old originals, covers (from\u00a0Chuck Berry to Townes Van Zandt) and appearances from friends\u00a0like singer k.d. lang and drummer Russ Kunkel, Lovett\u2019s Curb swan\u00a0song serves as a summation of where he\u2019s been and an indication\u00a0of where\u2019s he headed. \u201cI wanted to wrap up this part of my career\u00a0creatively,\u201d he says. \u201cThis record was to be as inclusive as possible\u00a0of the people I\u2019ve worked with and the people I love.\u201d Lovett took\u00a0time to talk with us about the new record, his storied career and his\u00a0future as an independent artist.<\/p>\n

By Jeff Tamarkin<\/p>\n

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LYLE LOVETT\u00a0 One of America\u2019s great singer-songwriters marks the end of an era Twenty-six years into his recording career, Lyle\u00a0Lovett is still amused by the attempts to categorize his music. \u201cEven\u00a0now, people who don\u2019t really listen to country music still think of\u00a0me as country, and people who listen to country don\u2019t,\u201d he says.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s an odd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[3121,3303],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5818,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815\/revisions\/5818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}