Lyle Lovett (album)
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| Studio album by Lyle Lovett | ||||
| Released | 1986 | |||
| Recorded | Chaton Recordings, Scottsdale, Arizona | |||
| Genre | country, folk, singer-songwriter | |||
| Length | 32:30 | |||
| Label | MCA/Curb | |||
| Producer | Tony Brown, Lyle Lovett | |||
| Lyle Lovett chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |  |
| Robert Christgau | B+ |
| Music Hound | 4/5 bones |
| Rolling Stone |   |
| Spin | 7/10 |
| Virgin | |
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.
Lovett's debut reached number 14 on Billboard's chart for Top Country Albums.
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."
All songs by Lyle Lovett, except "This Old Porch" by Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen.
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