{"id":249,"date":"2007-09-23T06:09:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T13:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=249"},"modified":"2007-09-23T06:09:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T13:09:57","slug":"its-not-big-its-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"It’s Not Big It’s Large"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s the title of the latest release from\u00c2\u00a0Grammy-winner Lyle Lovett<\/a> and his Large Band. And it’s another great one.<\/p>\n

For 20 years, this Texas singer-songwriter has been on the top of my list. A former journalism major, his lyrics are tight, sometimes humorous, often dark. And he sings in a variety of styles — country, jazz, blues, gospel, bluegrass — that are my favorites.<\/p>\n

Here’s one from the latest, South Texas Girl<\/a>. (Embed was disabled.)<\/p>\n

Also\u00c2\u00a0from\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0latest,\u00c2\u00a0this bluegrass number, Up In Indiana , live on Conan O’Brien:<\/p>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>And some good oldies. (More on YouTube<\/a> than you can shake a fist at.)<\/p>\n

You’ve Been So Good Up to Now.<\/p>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/embed>(She Wasn’t Good But She Had) Good Intentions (with Leo Kottke).<\/object><\/param><\/param><\/embed>And the ever-enigmatic If I Had A Boat.<\/object><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>She’s No Lady<\/a>, She’s Already Made Up Her Mind<\/a>, North Dakota<\/a>. The last one with Rickie Lee Jones. Saw the two of them in Minneapolis circa 1990. Great show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s the title of the latest release from\u00c2\u00a0Grammy-winner Lyle Lovett and his Large Band. And it’s another great one. For 20 years, this Texas singer-songwriter has been on the top of my list. A former journalism major, his lyrics are tight, sometimes humorous, often dark. And he sings in a variety of styles — country, … Continue reading “It’s Not Big It’s Large”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}