Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2736 in Digital Music Album
• Published on: 2001-10-23
• Released on: 2001-10-23
• Running time: 3054 seconds

Customer Reviews

Writer's Block?
Including this cd, Lyle's last 4 releases have been: 1) a 2-disc set of cover tunes; 2) a live album; 3) an instrumental film score; and 4) a repackaging of songs from his first 3 albums. All of them have been great, but the sad fact is there hasn't been a "new" Lyle Lovett album since 1996's Road to Ensenada. Has the greatest musician and songwriter in the universe run out of fresh ideas? Say it ain't so! That said, for the true fans (like me) who already own those albums it probably isn't worth paying ... for just "The Truck Song" and "San Antonio Girl" (which you'll recognize from Lyle's live shows). For the rest of you, this is a collection well worth having. LL has been brilliant from the start, and these songs hold up to any of his more recent work. Enjoy!

Doesn't get much better than this!!!!
Once inserted into your CD player you will have great difficulty removing it. Lyle is up there with the greats and this brilliant collection sums him up very well to date. There are some omissions, I felt could have squeaked on here from "Pontiac", but for those of you new to the genius of Lyle Lovett you couldn't find a better place to start. This is a timeless and immediately classic collection. Not a dud tune on the whole CD. Once you've tried this, try "Live in Texas" for a different view of Lyle's extraordinarily diverse talents. However, if you like songs that you will find stick in your head all day, all week, all month and all year, then get this CD!

Just what it says
This anthology not only pulls basically from Mr. Lovett's first three albums (plus two new songs), but the songs are taken from the more C&W end of the spectrum of his songs as opposed to his big band or folkier material. He could make another anthology off of these first three albums called "No Hat Here", and it would be just as viable as this collection. Lovett has easily got several more volumes if the anthology series continues.

I'm a Texan in exile, and putting on this ceedee while eating some oak-smoked brisket with all of the fixins' will easily transport me a thousand miles back home.

To put this ceedee in barbecue terms, there's no fat or gristle here, just perfectly tender meat.