Lyle Lovett - Release Me

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 51:40
Size: 118.3 MB
Styles: Country
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[3:05] 1. Garfield's Blackberry Blossom
[2:45] 2. Release Me
[3:31] 3. White Boy Lost In The Blues
[3:16] 4. Baby, It's Cold Outside
[4:48] 5. Isn't That So
[3:41] 6. Understand You
[3:35] 7. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
[2:35] 8. Keep It Clean
[2:58] 9. One Way Gal
[6:10] 10. Dress Of Laces
[3:56] 11. The Girl With The Holiday Smile
[3:25] 12. Night's Lullaby
[5:05] 13. White Freightliner Blues
[2:44] 14. Keep Us Steadfast

Lovett says he wanted "Release Me" to be "a punctuation mark for this whole part of my career." The album is comprised primarily of covers, "some songs that have been important to me and have been an important part of my career. Several of these songs I've played since 1976 and just had never recorded." Among them are tunes by Jesse Winchester, Townes Van Zandt, Michael Franks, Frank Loesser and Chuck Berry, as well as the traditional instrumental "Garfield's Blackberry Bottom."

Lovett contributed two originals to the set: "The Girl With the Holiday Smile" came from a real-life 1978 encounter at a Houston 7-11 "where I met this young lady hiding out from the cops" and also appeared on his 2011 holiday EP "Songs For the Season;" and he composed "Night's Lullaby," which features Nickel Creek's Sara and Sean Watkins, for a 2011 run in the Shakespeare Center Los Angeles' production of "Much Ado About Nothing" that the three appeared in. Lovett co-produced the album with Nathaniel Kunkel, and other guests include k.d. lang and Kat Edmonson.

Release Me

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