Music CD - Lyle Lovett: The Road to Ensenada

	Music CD: The Road to Ensenada Artist: Lyle Lovett List Price: $13.98 Our Price: $6.56 Your Save: $ 7.42 ( 53% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Mca
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Tracks: 1. Don't Touch My Hat 2. Her First Mistake 3. Fiona 4. That's Right (You're Not From Texas) 5. Who Loves You Better 6. Private Conversation 7. Promises 8. It Ought To Be Easier 9. I Can't Love You Anymore 10. Long Tall Texan 11. Christmas Morning 12. The Road To Ensenada 13. Bonus Track 1
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0008811140922 Label: Mca Manufacturer: Mca Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Mca Release Date: 1996-06-18 Studio: Mca
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Interesting but nothing to write home about. Comment: I am a fan of Lyle Lovett but was not impressed with this album. I have found that some albums do grow on you over time but have not experienced that with this album. Customer Rating: Summary: The man with the ten gallon hat Comment: It doesn't get any better than this, all the irony and wit one has come to expect from Lyle Lovett wrapped around 12 swinging songs that captures the border spirit of Texas. The ensembles vary from song to song, bringing in horns on That's Right (You're Not from Texas). But for the most part, there is a lean simplicity to the arrangements, capturing different feelings on each of the songs. The Road to Ensenada may just be his best album, but of course Lovett fans have their personal favorites. Customer Rating: Summary: His own thing Comment: I like Lyle Lovett. I don't know that this is my favorite of his albums but it doesn't matter; it's still a good album. It's more "pop" sounding and less weird than some of the others, but that's probably OK, too. I'm a bit mystified by those who insist on complaining that Lyle has no roots and is just exploiting earlier musical traditions. I think there are very few country musicians (country to any degree at all) who are more honest about their music. He's not trying to sound like Lefty Frizzell! I don't believe he ever said he was. I love Lefty, too (and Hank, and Robert Johnson, and Son House, and Mississippi John Hurt, and a lot of other "authentic" musicians), but Lefty and Lyle are, in many respects, apples and oranges. You don't have to choose; you're allowed to enjoy them all, so why pigeonhole? Customer Rating: Summary: Love Lovett!! Comment: A friend played this CD for me and I fell in love with it. Bought it the next day and it's one of my all time favorites. Before now I had never paid much attention to Lyle, but he's gotten my attention and I WILL buy more of his CDs. Highly recommended!!! Customer Rating: Summary: I CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHY OTHERS LIKE IT... LOVETT'S OTHER STUFF IS MUCH BETTER Comment: I've been listening to Country Music over 50 years. Going back to Frizzell, my all-time favorite, and up to the present. And I am a SONGWRITER, with my own recording studio and 40 songs copyrighted so far. Lovett is very talented, and has done much fine material. But really I cannot fathom how this particular CD got 5 stars from everyone else, unless they simply like Mr. Lovett and are trying to help him sell CDs. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: After the more experimental themes and misanthropic bit players populating his prior album, I Love Everybody, the songs on this superb 1996 set return to the more affable, earnest, but still knotty balance established by Lyle Lovett on his first four albums. He spins amiable yarns about his preferred headgear ("Don't Touch My Hat") and larger-than-life love objects (the one-eyed "Fiona"), sways hilariously through the backfired seductions of the samba-paced "Her First Mistake," and swings buoyantly through "That's Right (You're Not from Texas)," then ropes the equally droll Randy Newman into a tongue-in-cheek duet on "Long Tall Texan." In between, he sneaks a fresh string of dark love songs ("Private Conversation," "I Can't Love You Anymore") that sustain his formidable standards. Forget the forced issue of his putative ties to "new country": Lovett is simply one of the best American singer-songwriters extant, whether playing raconteur, philosopher king, or wounded romantic. --Sam Sutherland