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| It's Not Big It's Large | 
 enlarge | Artist: Lyle Lovett And His Large Band
Label: Lost Highway
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 3708
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.2
MPN: 000896602
UPC: 602517338586
EAN: 0602517338586
ASIN: B000RIWAS0
Release Date: August 28, 2007
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 Buy the Deluxe Edition September 3, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I agree with everything the others have written, but I would encourage you to buy the deluxe edition which includes a DVD. The DVD really adds to the enjoyment and understanding of many of the songs. Two in particular are important: "I Will Rise Up" and "South Texas Girl".
Seeing Lyle's family, the ranch, hearing what may be part of his story, seeing some of his horses and seeing his girlfriend, who he has been with since 1999 really enriched "South Texas Girl". Similarly, it opened up the full range of interpretations to "I Will Rise Up/Ain't No More Cane". Lyle has been opening/closing with that song live and when I heard it I thought it was right up there with Springstein's "Streets of Philsdelphia" and "Nebraska".
After seeing the DVD I went out and bought one for my best friend, who came to the concert with me. It's an investment in enjoyment and understanding.
By the way, if you don't have the self-titled Lyle Lovett CD, there are songs on that baby that exhibit true world-class writing, as creative, clear and poignant as you can get while continuing to be sincere, insightful, and simple.
Distinctly Lyle, that is, highly individualistic... October 1, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Few people would be brave enough to structure an album the way Lyle does here, in that he doesn't exactly stack the most commercial stuff to the front. For example, he starts things off with a Bob Wills style instrumental rather than a hook-laden vocal of his own. Back in the days when record programmers started each LP side off with the potential "hits," this would have raised a few hairs. But, of course, such risk taking is what Lyle is all about, right? Many of the songs here utilize sections of the "large band" rather than the whole enchilada, and the backup vocalists, old buddies Sweet Pea Atkinson and Harry Bowens, and others, are used prominently. As a whole, "It's Not Big.." is fairly uncategorizable, it isn't exactly country, it isn't exactly jazz, and so on. There is a good deal of repetition in the lyrical lines but, once you get into the groove, the music is strong enough to get you past that.
 Large but not big September 19, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Lyle Lovett is gifted songwiter with a literacy and sense of humor seldom found among today's music headliners. That said he also at times one of the most frustrating. This most recent effort is an example of that. Why do you assemble a band of this caliber and size and rarely use them as an entire unit. While it's nice to have a roster of all-star players and singers to pick and choose from; this is a CD is touted as a band effort (hence the "large" reference) but ends up being treated like a sports team. Lyle writes some very beautiful introspective songs but their inclusion on this effort seems like false advertising as they include a fraction of this ensemble in their execution. I saw this aggregation in concert and while Lyle put in an inspired peformance the band for the most part sat back stage waiting for a curtian call. Every bit of momentum gained was put on hold while Lyle indulged his "quiet side". A good producer would have kept Lyle on track and set aside his folkier side for another CD. I have always given Lyle the benefit of the doubt, but I've got to say, his chance to let this band make a collective statement is wasted.
Unbelievable....especiallly after seeing them in person!!! October 12, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Me and my girlfriends stumbled upon 4th row and center of Lyle and his Large Band at the Bass Peformance Hall in Fort Worth last night. I hadn't listened to Lyle other than "I Love Everybody" CD years ago. I hadn't heard the CD before the music on stage and was a bit reluctant with the jazzy style. Boy was I wrong. Seeing the very, very large band, the incredible talent on stage, the soulful singers and musicians and Lyle front and center was unbelievable. We were dancing in our chairs only to find out that alot of what he played live is on this CD. My friend had been listening to it all week and she said she now appreciates just how incredible the new CD is after seeing them all live in action. Their chemistry and talent are just amazing. I own the CD now and will now go and get every CD I have missed over the years. Thanks Lyle and your incredible, incredible talent and those amazing talented musicians with you. Turn it up loud and imagine them in front of you, all 16 or so of you. I am glad we have the CD to help remind us of this most incredible night.
 WHY BIG BAND?? September 13, 2007
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
Why does he call this call CD "His Large Band" when only one song
( Tickle Toe ) has this band on it. The rest of this CD is mellow acoustic type of ballads which is ok if this is what you're looking
for. I don't get where he was coming from on this. I only write this
because I don't want anybody else to be misguided as I was.
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