DIVERSE AND ECLECTIC FUN FOR YOUR EARS - 60s to 90s rock, prog, psychedelia, folk music, folk rock, world music, experimental, doom metal, strange and creative music videos, deep cuts and more!
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Lyle Lovett - Live in Dublin 1989
Among the country artists whose music has been labeled 'new traditionalist,' Lyle Lovett is surely the least bound to country-music traditions. The Texan singer and songwriter, who performed at the Beacon Theater on March 18, fuzzes the ordinarily sharp distinctions between country and more urbane pop-rock styles of performance. Onstage, he wears his bushy hair in a tangled post-punk cockscomb and addresses the audience in a tone of deadpan irony.
Although many of his songs deal with loving and losing in an earthy country vernacular, a streak of perverse sexual humor runs through lyrics that tend to portray women as voracious wild animals. And Mr. Lovett's mild-mannered folkish crooning, which shows almost no traces of a Southern rural twang, stands in sharp contrast to his lustier upbeat songs that have strong roots in Texan swing and the blues.
At the March 18 concert, Mr. Lovett performed with an ensemble that included, in addition to an excellent rhythm section, three horn players; a cellist, John Hagen from Austin, Tex., and Francine Reed, a spectacular blues singer from Phoenix who has become a vital staple in his musical entourage. The range of the instrumentation handsomely showcased the stylistic contradictions of Mr. Lovett's music. Embellished with Mr. Hagen's beautiful long-lined cello playing, ballads like 'Closing Time' and 'If I Had a Boat' acquired an extra edge of poignancy. The horn section also gave a brawling, guttural intensity to songs like 'Cryin' Shame,' from Mr. Lovett's bluesy new album. From: https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/26/arts/review-country-lyle-lovett-s-song-styles.html
-
Swedish experimental pop trio, Hey Elbow just released their debut album, Every Other, and it’s been running through the Grimy Goods speaker...
-
A Rock Oaklanders Inner Ear Brigade were founded in 2006 as a quartet by a guitarist / frontman Bill Wolter and his fellow musicians. Althou...
-
Laboratorium Pieśni (Song Laboratory) (world/ethno/spiritual/mystic folk music) is a female group of singers from Poland, created in 2013. ...
-
Recently I came across Vartra, a Serbian band that explores world fusion, dark folk, and extremely ethereal music that to me is ideal music ...
-
If you’re of a certain age, the Sunday night of September 9th, 1956 is seared indelibly upon your memory, because it’s the night Elvis Presl...