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Lyle Lovett
Also Playing: John Hiatt
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Thu Oct 8
8 pm
Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at Macky Auditorium
That Lyle Lovett is probably still best known for his brief (and bizarre) marriage to Julia Roberts shouldn’t reflect poorly on his music, which has been a model of idiosyncratic consistency for nearly three decades. A descendent of ’70s singer-songwriters like Townes Van Zandt, Kris Kristofferson, and Jerry Jeff Walker, who mined the gray area shared by rock, folk, and country, Lovett purposely removed himself from the big-hatted arena bombast of his Nashville peers in the mid ’80s—a wise move, considering his unique appearance and darkly comic lyrical sensibility would have hampered any chances for mainstream success anyway. His 12th studio album, Natural Forces, is due out this month; naturally, it’s classic-sounding Lovett, a down-home country record that doesn’t disappoint.
Macky Auditorium 2260 Baseline Rd, Denver/Boulder, CO
That Lyle Lovett is probably still best known for his brief (and bizarre) marriage to Julia Roberts shouldn’t reflect poorly on his music, which has been a model of idiosyncratic consistency for nearly three decades. A descendent of ’70s singer-songwriters like Townes Van Zandt, Kris Kristofferson, and Jerry Jeff Walker, who mined the gray area shared by rock, folk, and country, Lovett purposely removed himself from the big-hatted arena bombast of his Nashville peers in the mid ’80s—a wise move, considering his unique appearance and darkly comic lyrical sensibility would have hampered any chances for mainstream success anyway. His 12th studio album, Natural Forces, is due out this month; naturally, it’s classic-sounding Lovett, a down-home country record that doesn’t disappoint.
Updated 02/23/2012
