A conversation with Lyle Lovett about, among other things, being a dad. LyleLovett SmartLiveTX
released new music earlier this year, a mix of originals and standards titled. It’s the first new record in 10 years for the Klein native, one of the Houston area’s most iconic songwriters, and it’s been supported by the long-awaited return to the road with his Large Band. So, Lovett did some press for the album and the tour. On television, podcasts or in print, many of the interviews focused on Lovett’s role as dad to his five-year old twins. There's a real fascination. Even Dr.
“Because it had been several years since my last recording, I wanted to do a record that could serve as a reintroduction of the styles of music that I play. It was important to me to represent the Large Band as well as some of my new, more personal smaller arrangements.”Those new songs do focus on his family, particularly the striking title track. His twins, a son and daughter, were born June 12 and songs on the record cement the kids’ places in the Lovett family tradition.
“I just hope I can stick around long enough to see mine grow up. Even making it to this first mile-marker of them starting kindergarten is a huge deal. I’m trying not to be sad about missing their first day of school,” he said. “They went to a summer day camp this summer for a couple of weeks and that was their first organized school experience, you know? I did get to drop them off and pick them up a few times over that, which is really fun. It’s fun to watch them interact with other children.
“There’s a certain amount of attention you get just because you’re new. Everyone has an appetite for what’s new,” he continued. “When I first went to Nashville, I met some of my heroes, my country heroes, and I remember thinking, wow, these people that have had great careers their entire lives have really figured it out. I thought to myself, there’ll come a time when I don’t have the benefit of being new and I wonder how that’ll work.
“That was the first record that I got to work in the studio with George Massenburg as the producer, Nathaniel Kunkel as an engineer, Russ Kunkel on drums. I’d worked with Leland Sklar on, the record before, Leland played bass.
“It’s right there,” he said. “It used to just be Spring, but now it’s Old Town Spring, right there by the railroad track.”One of the food mentions I brought up was peanut butter and jelly, from the touchingsong, “Family Reserve.” That full-circled us back to family and its importance in Lovett’s life.
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