- Artist:
- Lovett, Lyle
- Description:
- Personnel: Lyle Lovett (vocals); Billy Williams (acoustic guitar); Ray Herndon (electric guitar); Paul Franklin (steel guitar); John Hagen (cello); Steve Marsh (saxophone); Matt Rollings (piano, synthesizer); Matt McKenzie, Edgar Meyer (bass); Harry Stinson (drums); Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, Francine Reed, J. David Sloan, Harry Stinson (background vocals).
On his second album, Lovett solidified his songwriting abilities and his style, emerging as Nashville-via-Texas`s answer to Randy Newman. Beneath PONTIAC`s ornate production and elegant melodies lurks major-league irony and cynicism. Lovett`s resonant, Jesse Winchester-like deadpan delivery is the Kabuki mask behind which insecurity and anthropomorphism run gleefully rampant. Our boy seems to have more troubles with women than the young Elvis Costello did; in "L.A. County," he drives cross-country to go postal at the marriage of his ex-love and her new beau. "She`s No Lady" finds the narrator married and in the throes of existential despair, though it`s mollified by some slick, jazzy chording.
All this expertly crafted sarcasm is redeemed by the poignant, elliptical "If I Had a Boat," a folk-country ballad full of touching, poetic imagery, and by the Townes Van Zandt-ish "Simple Song," whose simple, minor-key melody carries considerable lyrical heft. As "She`s No Lady" and "If I Had a Boat" remained staples of Lovett`s shows for years to come, PONTIAC is rightly regarded as one of his key releases.
- Track Listing:
- If I Had a Boat
- Give Back My Heart
- I Loved You Yesterday
- Walk Through the Bottomland
- L.A. County
- She`s No Lady
- M-O-N-E-Y
- Black and Blue
- Simple Song
- Pontiac
- She`s Hot to Go
Album Information
- Release Date:
- 01/11/1988
- Type:
- Performer
- Genre:
- Country
- Subgenre:
- Progressive Country
- Label:
- MCA Records (USA)
- Producer:
- Tony Brown; Lyle Lovett
- Catalog Number:
- 42028
- Original Release Year:
- 1988
- # of Discs:
- 1
- SPARS Coding:
- DDD
- Studio/Live:
- Studio
- Mono/Stereo:
- Stereo
- Runtime:
- 35 : 41
- Guest Artist:
- Emmylou Harris; Vince Gill; Francine Reed; Edgar Meyer
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Anonymous from Boone/NC, Feb 2, 1900
This is a great Lyle Lovett album which has some of his trademark songs.
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