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While music should be and is open for interpretation by the listener, Lovett’s new album, IT’S NOT BIG IT’S LARGE, suggests notions of mortality, loss and the fluidity of time. In many of the songs, the past intrudes on the present and the narrator finds strength to deal with the travails of today by putting them into historical perspective. That sounds like heavy-going, but its Lovett’s gift to make the deep thoughts slide down like honey.
Lyle Lovett does a lot of things very well, but one of his most important talents is his ability to make us aware of how much the past lives in us and how what we do today shapes how we will consider our lives later. The people in old songs, old photographs and even old TV shows were once just as alive and full of feelings as we are now. They were what we are; we will someday be as they are. That can be an intimidating thought, but Lovett also offers us consolation; when we sing their songs, when we remember them, they are alive again.
August 12, 8 p.m.
Michael & Susan Dell Hall
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The tony new Long Center meets its match with the always stylish Lyle Lovett & His Large Band. The high-haired one is sure to include lots from his latest, It’s Not Big It’s Large (Lost Highway), a return to form that romps in all the right spots and turns to old standbys like gospel and bluegrass with aplomb. As always, it should be a big night for expensive boots and devilish humor. – Jim Caligiuri
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