...from a New Yorker feature a couple of years back. The writer spent a fair amount of time with Lovett in and around his home in Texas, and reading the article one couldn't help but see that LL is a very smart, gentle, and humble man.
At one point, Lyle and the writer go to a specialty boot store to pick up a pair of boots for LL. While they are in the shop, the owner gets a phone call from a friend and happens to mention that Lyle Lovett is in the shop. So the friend asks the owner to ask Lyle a question - "If I should buy one Lyle Lovett album and only one, what should it be?" The owner obliges and asks the question of Lyle.
Mr. Lovett pauses for a moment and then answers, "Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson."
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From cduniverse: This is the original classic Willie Nelson album from 1975.
ReplyDeleteWillie Nelson stopped shaving, grew his hair, ditched his suits and found acceptance with the hippies who bought the country rock of the Flying Burrito Brothers. Like TOMMY, RED HEADED STRANGER was a concept album, this time about a murderous preacher. His laid-back voice-and-guitar revival of "Blue Eyes Cryin' In The Rain" was a surprise US hit single, and Richard Thompson says, "I like the fact that he plays these terrible solos and leaves them alone, which takes a lot of guts these days.
Sometime I'll discover who and when the best quote along this line was made. But I first heard it from Arlo Guthrie as approximately this: "I wish I could like my own music as much as I like others."
ReplyDeleteThe process that begets a creation is not the same as that of experiencing or communing with or enjoying what is necessarily someone else's creation. When you experience someone's art and it resonates with you, there is a joy in discovering an expression of a truth you didn't know how to say. And the realization you're not alone.
It's a fine, fine record, I have to say. Though I am puzzled by the "terrible" solos comment. And is that THE Richard Thompson or a music critic maybe...?
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