Lyle Lovett
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Lyle Pearce Lovett (born November 1, 1957) is an American country singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 25 singles to date, including his highest entry, the number 10 chart hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, "Cowboy Man". Lovett has won four Grammy Awards, including Best Male Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Album. It's Not Big It's Large was released in 2007, where it debuted and peaked at number 2 on the Top Country Albums chart. A new studio album, Natural Forces, was released on October 20, 2009 by Lost Highway Records. The last studio album on his Curb Records contract, Release Me, was released in February 2012.
Biography
Early life
Lovett was born in Houston, Texas, when his family lived in the nearby community of Klein. He is the son of William Pearce and Bernell Louise (née Klein) Lovett, a marketing executive and training specialist, respectively. He was raised in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Lovett attended Texas A&M University, where he received Bachelor of Arts degrees in both German and Journalism in 1980. It is a common misconception that Lyle and Robert Earl Keen were roommates at A&M. They were not. However, they lived near each other in College Station, became good friends, and wrote "The Front Porch Song" together, which both went on to record.
Lyle Lovett (album)
Lyle Lovett is Lovett's 1986 eponymous debut album. 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. In 1984 Lovett recorded a four song demo with the help of the Phoenix band, J. David Sloan and the Rogues. His music had begun to be distributed by the Fast Folk Musical Magazine
Nanci Griffith had previously 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. Lovett appears on the album as a vocalist and even appears on the cover of her Last of the True Believers album.
Chart performance
Lovett's debut reached number 14 on Billboard's chart for Top Country Albums.
Critical acclaim
Lyle Lovett was ranked #91 in Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums of the 1980s. and both Velvet and the Italian magazine Il Mucchio Selvaggio also cited it as one of the top 100 albums of the decade.Allmusic compares the album to Steve Earle's Guitar Town, calling it, "one of the most promising and exciting debut albums to come out of Nashville in the 1980s."Robert Christgau described Lovett's debut as "Writes like Guy Clark, only plainer, sings like Jesse Winchester only countrier."
'Lyle Lovett' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
Actors: Don Abernathy (actor), Don Abernathy (actor), Patrick J. Adams (actor), Robert Amjarv (actor), George Anton (actor), Michael William Arnold (actor), Christopher Ausburn (actor), Caleb Babcock (actor), Tim Bagley (actor), Steve Bannos (actor), Raymond J. Barry (actor), Paul Bates (actor), Terrence Beasor (actor), Gerry Bednob (actor), AJ Abaya (actor),
Plot: The up-and-down-and-up-again story of musician Dewey Cox, whose songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 36 kids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to - and then kicks - every drug known to man; but despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman - longtime backup singer Darlene.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, accidental-suicide, addiction, animated-sequence, backstageGenres: Comedy, Drama, Music,
Taglines: Life made him tough. Love made him strong. Music made him hard.
Quotes:
[after Dewey accidentally barges in a room filled with smoke and groupies]::Sam: [coughs] Get outta here, Dewey!::Dewey Cox: What are y'all doin' in here?::Sam: We're smoking reefer and you don't want no part of this shit.::Dewey Cox: You're smoking *reefers*?::Sam: Yeah, 'course we are; can't you smell it?::Dewey Cox: [Dewey doesn't have a sense of smell] No, Sam. I can't.::Reefer Girl: Come on, Dewey! Join the party!::[takes a hit off a joint]::Sam: No, Dewey, you don't want this. Get outta here!::Dewey Cox: You know what, I don't want no hangover. I can't get no hangover.::Sam: It doesn't give you a hangover!::Dewey Cox: Wha-I get addicted to it or something?::Sam: It's not habit-forming!::Dewey Cox: Oh, okay... well, I don't know... I don't want to overdose on it.::Sam: You can't OD on it!::Dewey Cox: It's not gonna make me wanna have sex, is it?::Sam: It makes sex even better!::Dewey Cox: Sounds kind of expensive.::Sam: It's the cheapest drug there is.::Dewey Cox: [at a loss and out of excuses] Hmm.::Sam: You don't want it!::Dewey Cox: I think I kinda want it.::Sam: Okay, but just this once. Come on in.Edith: It's illegal to be married to two people at the same time, Dewey!::Dewey Cox: What about if, if you're famous?
Elvis Presley: It's called Karate, man. Only two kinds of people know it, The Chinese and The King. And one of them is me.
Dewey Cox: You know what? Go ahead! Take the children, I don't care! All I need is my music. I don't need you. [pointing to the babies] And I don't need "you". And I don't need "you". And I don't need "you". You're just sitting there all high and mighty in your diaper. If anything, you need me, you're a baby.
[singing while moving hay]::Pa Cox: The wrong kid died / The wrong kid died...
Dewey Cox: [speaking of his complex song] It's still not finished yet. I'm hearing... more Aboriginal percussionists. And I want an army of digeridoos. Fifty thousand digeridoos!
[repeated line]::Sam: And you never once paid for drugs. Not once!
Edith: What about my dreams?::Dewey Cox: Edith I told you I can't build your candy house! It will fall apart, the sun will melt the candy, it won't work!
Dewey Cox: Goddamnit, this is a dark fucking period!
Dewey Cox: [irritated] I don't need people around me, stifling me. So if you don't like it, there's the door.::Theo: Dewey, are you sayin' you don't need us no more?::Dewey Cox: Not unless you can open your minds... and learn to play the fucking theremin.::[brief pause]::Theo: FUCK YOU DEWEY!::Dave: Yeah, fuck you Dewey! In twenty years, not once have you thrown a woman my way. You don't think we like cheating on our wives too?::Sam: And you never once paid for drugs. Not once!::Dave: You pay that chimp more than you pay us! I had to borrow from the chimp to get a mortgage on my house!::Theo: And those stupid siamese glass cats you get us every year for Christmas! I don't want anymore siamese glass cats!::Dewey Cox: The siamese cat is a symbol of mobility in Ancient Egypt.::Sam: Fuck nobility!::Dave: Fuck Ancient Egypt!::Theo: ...Fuck cats!::Sam: And you never paid for drugs. Not once.::Dave: [angrily] You slept with my wife!::Theo: You slept with me too! And I've had confused feelings about that for ten years now!::Sam: And you never *once* paid for drugs!... Not once.
The Show Formerly Known as the Martin Short Show (1995)
Actors: Phil Hartman (actor), Phil Hartman (actor), Phil Hartman (actor), Bruno Kirby (actor), Jay Leno (actor), Chad Lowe (actor), Jim Piddock (actor), Paul Shaffer (actor), Harry Shearer (actor), Martin Short (actor), Martin Short (actor), Martin Short (actor), Martin Short (actor), Martin Short (actor), Joe Flaherty (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Lovett, Lyle Filmography
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2015, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2013, role: actor , character name: Griffin
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2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2011, role: actor , character name: Singer
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2009, role: actor
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2009, role: actor , character name: Peabody Bartender
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2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
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2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2007, role: producer
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2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2007, role: actor , character name: Performer
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2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2007, role: composer
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2007, role: actor
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2007, role: director
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2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2007, role: actor , character name: Lyle Lovett
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2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2003, role: actor , character name: Performer
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2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2003, role: actor , character name: Narrator
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2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2002, role: actor , character name: Bear
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2002, role: actor , character name: Disc Jockey
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2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2001, role: actor , character name: Host
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2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2000, role: composer
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1999, role: actor , character name: Manny Hood
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1999, role: actor , character name: Himself - Performer
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1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1998, role: actor , character name: Sheriff Carl Tippett
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1998, role: actor , character name: Road Person
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1997, role: actor , character name: Research Scientist
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1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1996, role: actor , character name: Wade
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1996, role: actor , character name: Himself - Performer: 'You've Got a Friend'
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1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1995, role: actor , character name: Himself - American National Anthem
Famous quotes by Lyle Lovett:
Lyle Lovett
ALBUMS
- Release Me released: 2012
- Natural Forces released: 2009
- My Baby Don't Tolerate released: 2003
- Smile (Songs From the Movies) released: 2003
- Anthology, Volume 1: Cowboy Man released: 2001
- Dr. T & The Women released: 2000
- Live in Texas released: 1999
- Step Inside This House released: 1998
- The Road to Ensenada released: 1996
- I Love Everybody released: 1994
- Lyle Lovett and His Large Band released: 1989
- Pontiac released: 1987
- Lyle Lovett released: 1986
- 1989-07-27: Dominion Theatre, London, UK released:
- 1989-11-29: London Palladium, London, UK released:
- 1992-06-20: Woburn Abbey, UK released:
- 1994: Charlotte, NC, USA released:
- 1993-07-06: Paramount Theater, Austin, TX, USA released:
- 1996-11-19: Austin City Limits, Austin, TX, USA released:
- 1996-08-26: Waterloo Records, Austin, TX, USA released:
- 2006-03-18: Stubb's, Austin, TX, USA released:
- 1997-07-07: Wolftrap, Vienna, VA, USA released:
- 1997-07-07: Wolftrap, Vienna, VA, USA released:
- Santa Cruz Civic 2-17-03 released:
- 1992-01-27: Minneapolis, MN, USA released:
- Best of Lyle Lovett released:
- Joshua Judges Ruth released:
1992-01-27: Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Instrumental
- I've Been to Memphis
- L.A. County
- Good Intentions
- Flyswatter
- Crying Shame
- All My Love Is Gone
- Give Back My Heart
- Nobody Knows Me
- She Makes Me Feel Good
- Brown Eyed Handsome Man
- North Dakota
- She Already Made Up Her Mind
- Funeral Song
- Church
- If I Had a Boat
- She's Hot to Go
- You Can't Resist It
- Simple Song
- Here I Am
- She's No Lady
- Friend of the Devil
Sonja
I've never been lucky
At picking up women
But this life that I live
Is not one that I choose
She was a waitress
With hair blond and curly
With a pretty black dress
And those Japanese shoes
Man I need to impress her
'Cause I'd like to undress her
I need a song about Sonja
When I'm singing tonight
She looked so pretty
As she poured my coffee
But she had her eye
On my freind at the bar
And I watched her watch him
And I watched her thinking
I wish her eye was on me
Man I need to impress her
'Cause I'd like to undress her
I need a song about Sonja
When I'm singing tonight
And if I could sing her
A tender love ballad
I'd hope that the audience might sing along
But I can't find the right way
To tell her my feelings
And still make the words rhyme with Sonja
No I've never been lucky
At picking up women
But this life that I live
Is not one that I choose
She was a waitress
Now she's gone forever
And I'm stuck with this song
That I never will use
Man you need to impress her
If you want to undress her
Sing a song about Sonja
When you're singing tonight
Sing a song about Sonja
Lyle Lovett
HIDDEN ERROR: Usage of "Alma_Mater" is not recognized
Lyle Pearce Lovett (born November 1, 1957) is an American country singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 25 singles to date, including his highest entry, the number 10 chart hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, "Cowboy Man". Lovett has won four Grammy Awards, including Best Male Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Album. It's Not Big It's Large was released in 2007, where it debuted and peaked at number 2 on the Top Country Albums chart. A new studio album, Natural Forces, was released on October 20, 2009 by Lost Highway Records. The last studio album on his Curb Records contract, Release Me, was released in February 2012.
Biography
Early life
Lovett was born in Houston, Texas, when his family lived in the nearby community of Klein. He is the son of William Pearce and Bernell Louise (née Klein) Lovett, a marketing executive and training specialist, respectively. He was raised in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Lovett attended Texas A&M University, where he received Bachelor of Arts degrees in both German and Journalism in 1980. It is a common misconception that Lyle and Robert Earl Keen were roommates at A&M. They were not. However, they lived near each other in College Station, became good friends, and wrote "The Front Porch Song" together, which both went on to record.
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