An Acoustic Evening with Lyle Lovett January 14, 2009
Sponsored by The Osprey at Beaver Creek, A RockResort
“The Jazzy, honky-tonk songs of singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett have been widening the reach of country music for over 20 years.” - Wall Street Journal
Lyle Lovett is one of the all-time great American singer/songwriters. His voice is unique, but his antecedents are recognizable. In his work two roads come together; ¬the trail blazed by the great Texas storytellers of whom Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark are the best known; and the crooked highway navigated by sophisticated, clever musicians such as Randy Newman and Tom Waits. Lovett’s first gift was to combine these two potent strands of musical DNA into a new genome and generate the brilliant and double-sided “If I Had A Boat,” “God Will,” “If I Were the Man You Wanted,” “Family Reserve” and “Her First Mistake.” He is also capable of both flat-out humor (“That’s Right (You’re Not From Texas”), “Here I am,” ”Church”) and poignant heartbreakers that don’t descend into sentimentality (“She’s Already Made Up Her Mind,” “Nobody Knows Me,” “The Road To Ensenada”).
Lovett’s literary talent has made him part of the tradition of American ironists. This is probably the aspect of Lovett that interested director Robert Altman, who cast him in four films (“The Player,” “Short Cuts,” “Pret-a-Porter,” “Cookie’s Fortune”) and had him score a fifth (“Dr. T and the Women”).
Lovett has been alternating tours with his own band and with songwriter circles, when he performs with John Hiatt, and fellow Texans Guy Clark and Joe Ely. For this special engagement at the Vilar Performing Arts Center, Lovett presents an intimate, acoustic format.
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