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It's Not Big It's Large
by: Lyle Lovett and His Large Band

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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517338586
Label: Lost Highway
Manufacturer: Lost Highway
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Lost Highway
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Sales Rank: 2656
Studio: Lost Highway

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Album Description:
While music should be and is open for interpretation by the listener, Lovett's new album, IT'S NOT BIG IT'S LARGE, suggests notions of mortality, loss and the fluidity of time. In many of the songs, the past intrudes on the present and the narrator finds strength to deal with the travails of today by putting them into historical perspective. That sounds like heavy-going, but its Lovett's gift to make the deep thoughts slide down like honey.

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On his sophomore effort for Lost Highway (and first release in four years), Lyle Lovett tests the label's free-spirited reputation with an eclectic slate of songs that range from fervent country swing through gospel-blues, though the core here finds the Texas singer-songwriter in a decidedly quiet, introspective mood. Anchored by a vibrant, swinging take on Lester Young's 'Tickle Toe,' his big band's first sprawling instrumental workout in many a year, Lovett quickly segues into the intriguing gospel-blues of the 'I Will Rise Up/Ain't No More Cane' medley before shrewdly contemplating the backside of life and fame's inevitable grade on 'All Downhill from Here' and the weary 'This Traveling Around.' The plaintive grace of 'Don't Cry a Tear' and 'The Alley Song' hauntingly blurs genre boundaries, while 'South Texas Girl' does a little quiet Tex-Mex retrenchment. Lovett celebrates his 50th year here with a muse that's ever restless, yet still spry enough to relish the simple, varied joys of the buoyant 'Up in Indiana' (also featured in a stripped-down acoustic version), the bluesy 'No Big Deal,' and the gospel-meets-carnal playfulness of 'Make It Happy' before another fervent, elegiac version of 'Ain't No More Cane' brings the album full-circle. --Jerry McCulley

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Fantastic Lyle.
Unique music, unclassifiable, country but gospel and soulful as well. The musicians in his band are all so good that they could tour as headliners themselves.

Rating:

- Eh.
I think I need to listen to this a little more, but I found myself getting bored with, and skipping, tracks a little too often. Too many of them are repetitive, a al "Private Conversation", except they don't have that energy and aren't as catchy. They're also slow. Slow + repetitive = not all that interesting (unless maybe you want to meditate to it).

"Up in Indiana" at least has some energy. "South Texas Girl" is really good once you really hear it, and it's still a pretty good album, but musically it feels a little muzak-ish.

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Addendum: Okay, it gets better the more you listen to it. Both variants of "I Will Rise Up" are pretty effective.

It's still 3 on a good day, though. I miss the less-produced, less-pop Lyle.

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- More good stuff from Lyle!
Great CD, enjoyed the Big Band cut and all the tunes from Lyle. One of my favorites.

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- Mr. Lovett's done it again!
I have been a fan of Mr. Lovetts for at least 10 years and am never disappointed in any of his CD's and this one is no exception. Some of the songs are repeated in this selection and at first I questioned this, however after listening to this CD a few times you realize that the arrangements are slightly different and in some cases the lyrics are sung to different melodies entirely, which gives the whole song a completely different feel to it. I would recommend this CD to anyone who is a fan of country or even blues music.

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